A decade of transitional millisecond pulsars
Abstract
Transitional millisecond pulsars (tMSPs), which are systems that harbor a pulsar in the throes of the recycling process, have emerged as a new source class since the discovery of the first such system a decade ago. These systems switch between accretion-powered low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) and rotation-powered radio millisecond pulsar (RMSP) states, and provide exciting avenues to understand the physical processes that spin-up neutron stars to millisecond periods. During the last decade, three tMSPs, as well as a candidate source, have been extensively probed using systematic, multi-wavelength campaigns. Here we review the observational highlights from these campaigns and our general understanding of tMSPs.
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@article{arxiv.1711.10565,
title = {A decade of transitional millisecond pulsars},
author = {Amruta Jaodand and Jason W. T. Hessels and Anne M. Archibald},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.10565},
year = {2018}
}
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4 pages, 2 figures, to appear in Proceedings of IAU Symposium 337: Pulsar Astrophysics - The Next 50 Years