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PSR J1023+0038 is the first millisecond pulsar that was ever observed as an optical and UV pulsar. So far, it is the only optical transitional millisecond pulsar. The rotation- and accretion-powered emission mechanisms hardly individually…

I will review the latest developments in understanding the high-energy emission of rotation-powered pulsars and magnetically-powered Anomalous X-ray Pulsars (AXPs) and Soft Gamma-Ray Repeaters (SGRs). These fields have been extremely active…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Alice K. Harding

Thermal X-ray emission from rotation-powered millisecond pulsars, shaped by gravitational lensing and the beaming of the surface radiation, provides critical insights into neutron star properties. This approach has been the focus of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-31 Tong Zhao , Dimitrios Psaltis , Feryal Ozel

This is a review of X-ray emission from all types of isolated neutron stars, with an emphasis on rotation-powered pulsars. Topics include magnetospheric and thermal emission, as well as pulsar wind nebulae.

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. M. Kaspi , M. S. E. Roberts , A. K. Harding

We report on the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) monitoring campaign of the 468 Hz accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar IGR J17379-3747. From a detailed spectral and timing analysis of the coherent pulsations we find that…

We have systematically studied the X-ray emission properties of globular cluster millisecond pulsars in order to evaluate their spectral properties and luminosities in a uniform way. Cross-correlating the radio timing positions of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-06-03 W. Becker , H. H. Huang , T. Prinz

Binary and Millisecond pulsars have a great deal to teach us about stellar evolution and are invaluable tools for tests of relativistic theories of gravity. Our understanding of these objects has been transformed by large-scale surveys that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Matthew Bailes

The existence of a population of millisecond pulsars in the Galactic bulge is supported, along with other evidence, by the Fermi GeV excess, an anomalous {\gamma}-ray emission detected almost 15 years ago in the direction of the Galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-19 J. Berteaud , F. Calore , M. Clavel , J. Marvil , S. Hyman , F. K. Schinzel , M. Kerr

I review the properties of three X-ray accreting millisecond pulsars observed with INTEGRAL. Out of seven recently discovered accretion-powered pulsars (one discovered by INTEGRAL), three were observed with the INTEGRAL satellite up to 300…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-11-07 Maurizio Falanga

We present a statistical study of pulsars and millisecond pulsars (MSPs) based on multiwavelength observations in the Galactic Field and Globular Clusters. We examine their emission properties, timing behavior, and spatial distributions,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-10 Maria Rah , Areg Mickaelian , Francesco Flammini Dotti , Rainer Spurzem

The spectra of several X-ray binary pulsars display a clear soft excess, which in most cases can be described with a blackbody model, above the main power-law component. While in the high-luminosity sources it is usually characterized by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 N. La Palombara , L. Sidoli , P. Esposito , A. Tiengo , S. Mereghetti

We collate the evidence for rotation-powered neutron stars that are visible as X-ray sources and not as radio pulsars. Quantitative upper limits exist for the radio fluxes of eight objects, revealing a population at least an order of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 K. T. S. Brazier , S. Johnston

In this review I discuss the characteristics and the formation of all classes of millisecond pulsars (MSPs). The main focus is on the stellar astrophysics of X-ray binaries leading to the production of fully recycled MSPs with white dwarf…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-19 Thomas M. Tauris

Evidence derived with minimal assumptions from existing published observations is presented to show that an ion-proton plasma is the source of radio-frequency emission in millisecond and in normal isolated pulsars. There is no primary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-27 P B Jones

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are prolific GeV $\gamma\text{-ray}$ emitters, and nearly 80\% of Fermi-LAT MSPs reside in compact binaries. We demonstrate that the companions in these compact MSPs binaries are also 511 keV annihilation line…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-05 Zachary Metzler , Zorawar Wadiasingh

We present a large sample of high-precision, coherently-dedispersed polarization profiles of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) at frequencies between 410 and 1414 MHz. These data include the first polarimetric observations of several of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 I. H. Stairs , S. E. Thorsett , F. Camilo

The most energetic neutron stars, powered by their rotation, are capable of producing pulsed radiation from the radio up to gamma rays with nearly TeV energies. These pulsars are part of the universe of energetic and powerful particle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-30 Isabelle A. Grenier , Alice K. Harding

Transitional millisecond pulsars are an emerging class of sources that link low-mass X-ray binaries to millisecond radio pulsars in binary systems. These pulsars alternate between a radio pulsar state and an active low-luminosity X-ray disc…

From the hundreds of gamma-ray pulsars known, only a handful show non-thermal X-ray pulsations. Instead, nine objects pulse in non-thermal X-rays but lack counterparts at higher energies. Here, we present a physical model for the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-13 Diego F. Torres

Correlations between gamma-ray and X-ray spectral properties of pulsars are investigated in order to provide observational hints on physics involved in pulsars' high-energy emissions. Using a sample of 43 pulsars detected in both X-ray and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-21 Ashwin Aravindaraj , Hsiang-Kuang Chang