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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Article number | 192 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Astrophysical Journal |
| Volume | 833 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Early online date | 16 Dec 2016 |
| Publication status | Published - 20 Dec 2016 |
Abstract
We report the discovery and timing results for five millisecond pulsars (MSPs) from the Arecibo PALFA survey: PSRs J1906+0055, J1914+0659, J1933+1726, J1938+2516, and J1957+2516. Timing observations of the five pulsars were conducted with the Arecibo and Lovell telescopes for time spans ranging from 1.5 to 3.3 years. All of the MSPs except one (PSR J1914+0659) are in binary systems with low eccentricities. PSR J1957+2516 is likely a redback pulsar, with a ∼0.1 M⊙ companion and possible eclipses that last ∼10% of the orbit. The position of PSR J1957+2516 is also coincident with a near-infrared source. All five MSPs are distant (>3.1 kpc) as determined from their dispersion measures, and none of them show evidence of γ-ray pulsations in a fold of Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope data. These five MSPs bring the total number of MSPs discovered by the PALFA survey to 26 and further demonstrate the power of this survey in finding distant, highly dispersed MSPs deep in the Galactic plane.
Keywords
- pulsars: general, pulsars: individual (PSR J1906+0055, PSR J1914+0659, PSR J1933+1726, PSR J1938+2516, J1957+2516
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Physics and Astronomy(all)
- Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Earth and Planetary Sciences(all)
- Space and Planetary Science
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In: Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 833, No. 2, 192, 20.12.2016.
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Timing of Five PALFA-Discovered Millisecond Pulsars
AU - Stovall, K.
AU - Allen, B.
AU - Bogdanov, S.
AU - Brazier, A.
AU - Camilo, F.
AU - Cardoso, F.
AU - Chatterjee, S.
AU - Cordes, J. M.
AU - Crawford, F.
AU - Deneva, J. S.
AU - Ferdman, R.
AU - Freire, P. C.C.
AU - Hessels, J. W.T.
AU - Jenet, F.
AU - Kaplan, D. L.
AU - Karako-Argaman, C.
AU - Kaspi, V. M.
AU - Knispel, B.
AU - Kotulla, R.
AU - Lazarus, P.
AU - Lee, K. J.
AU - Van Leeuwen, J.
AU - Lynch, R.
AU - Lyne, A. G.
AU - Madsen, E.
AU - McLaughlin, M. A.
AU - Patel, C.
AU - Ransom, S. M.
AU - Scholz, P.
AU - Siemens, X.
AU - Stairs, I. H.
AU - Stappers, B. W.
AU - Swiggum, J.
AU - Zhu, W. W.
AU - Venkataraman, A.
N1 - Funding Information: J.W.T.H. acknowledges funding from an NWO Vidi fellowship and from the European Research Council under the European Unions Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013)/ERC Starting Grant agreement nr. 37062 (DRAGNET). V.M.K. receives support from an NSERC Discovery Grant and Accelerator Supplement, from NSERCs Herzberg Award, from an R. Howard Webster Foundation Fellowship from the Canadian Institute for Advanced Study, the Canada Research Department Program, and the Lorne Trottier Department in Astrophysics and Cosmology.
PY - 2016/12/20
Y1 - 2016/12/20
N2 - We report the discovery and timing results for five millisecond pulsars (MSPs) from the Arecibo PALFA survey: PSRs J1906+0055, J1914+0659, J1933+1726, J1938+2516, and J1957+2516. Timing observations of the five pulsars were conducted with the Arecibo and Lovell telescopes for time spans ranging from 1.5 to 3.3 years. All of the MSPs except one (PSR J1914+0659) are in binary systems with low eccentricities. PSR J1957+2516 is likely a redback pulsar, with a ∼0.1 M⊙ companion and possible eclipses that last ∼10% of the orbit. The position of PSR J1957+2516 is also coincident with a near-infrared source. All five MSPs are distant (>3.1 kpc) as determined from their dispersion measures, and none of them show evidence of γ-ray pulsations in a fold of Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope data. These five MSPs bring the total number of MSPs discovered by the PALFA survey to 26 and further demonstrate the power of this survey in finding distant, highly dispersed MSPs deep in the Galactic plane.
AB - We report the discovery and timing results for five millisecond pulsars (MSPs) from the Arecibo PALFA survey: PSRs J1906+0055, J1914+0659, J1933+1726, J1938+2516, and J1957+2516. Timing observations of the five pulsars were conducted with the Arecibo and Lovell telescopes for time spans ranging from 1.5 to 3.3 years. All of the MSPs except one (PSR J1914+0659) are in binary systems with low eccentricities. PSR J1957+2516 is likely a redback pulsar, with a ∼0.1 M⊙ companion and possible eclipses that last ∼10% of the orbit. The position of PSR J1957+2516 is also coincident with a near-infrared source. All five MSPs are distant (>3.1 kpc) as determined from their dispersion measures, and none of them show evidence of γ-ray pulsations in a fold of Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope data. These five MSPs bring the total number of MSPs discovered by the PALFA survey to 26 and further demonstrate the power of this survey in finding distant, highly dispersed MSPs deep in the Galactic plane.
KW - pulsars: general
KW - pulsars: individual (PSR J1906+0055, PSR J1914+0659, PSR J1933+1726, PSR J1938+2516, J1957+2516
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U2 - 10.48550/arXiv.1608.08880
DO - 10.48550/arXiv.1608.08880
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JO - Astrophysical Journal
JF - Astrophysical Journal
SN - 0004-637X
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