2022ApJ...927..216R


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2022ApJ...927..216R - Astrophys. J., 927, 216-216 (2022/March-2)

Discovery, Timing, and Multiwavelength Observations of the Black Widow Millisecond Pulsar PSR J1555-2908.

RAY P.S., NIEDER L., CLARK C.J., RANSOM S.M., CROMARTIE H.T., FRAIL D.A., MOOLEY K.P., INTEMA H., JAGANNATHAN P., DEMOREST P., STOVALL K., HALPERN J.P., DENEVA J., GUILLOT S., KERR M., SWIHART S.J., BRUEL P., STAPPERS B.W., LYNE A., MICKALIGER M., CAMILO F., FERRARA E.C., WOLFF M.T. and MICHELSON P.F.

Abstract (from CDS):

We report the discovery of PSR J1555-2908, a 1.79 ms radio and gamma-ray pulsar in a 5.6 hr binary system with a minimum companion mass of 0.052 M☉. This fast and energetic ({dot}E=3×{10}^{35} erg s–1) millisecond pulsar was first detected as a gamma-ray point source in Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) sky survey observations. Guided by a steep-spectrum radio point source in the Fermi error region, we performed a search at 820 MHz with the Green Bank Telescope that first discovered the pulsations. The initial radio pulse timing observations provided enough information to seed a search for gamma-ray pulsations in the LAT data, from which we derive a timing solution valid for the full Fermi mission. In addition to the discovery and timing of radio and gamma-ray pulsations, we searched for X-ray pulsations using NICER but no significant pulsations were detected. We also obtained time-series r-band photometry that indicates strong heating of the companion star by the pulsar wind. Material blown off the heated companion eclipses the 820 MHz radio pulse during inferior conjunction of the companion for ≃10% of the orbit, which is twice the angle subtended by its Roche lobe in an edge-on system.

Abstract Copyright: © 2022. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.

Journal keyword(s): Millisecond pulsars - Gamma-ray sources - Binary pulsars - Pulsars - Compact binary stars - Radio pulsars

VizieR on-line data: <Available at CDS (J/ApJ/927/216): fig5.dat>

Simbad objects: 8

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Number of rows : 8
N Identifier Otype ICRS (J2000)
RA
ICRS (J2000)
DEC
Mag U Mag B Mag V Mag R Mag I Sp type #ref
1850 - 2026
#notes
1 PSR J0218+42 Psr 02 18 06.3604 +42 32 17.365           ~ 365 2
2 M 1 SNR 05 34 31.8 +22 01 03           ~ 6516 1
3 PSR J0952-0607 Psr 09 52 08.319 -06 07 23.49           ~ 103 0
4 PSR J1025-07 Psr 10 24 38.6991893112 -07 19 19.045523388     19.81 18.78 18.00 ~ 286 1
5 QSO J1554-2704 Bla 15 54 02.46978052 -27 04 40.2335740   19.56 21.5 18.9   ~ 59 1
6 PSR J1555-2908 Psr 15 55 40.6585535732 -29 08 28.423239347           ~ 37 0
7 PSR J1824-2452A Psr 18 24 32.009 -24 52 11.10           ~ 529 2
8 PSR B1937+21.4 Psr 19 39 38.560096 +21 34 59.13552           ~ 1142 0

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