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2022ApJ...934L..21Z - Astrophys. J., 934, L21 (2022/August-1)

Radio Detection of an Elusive Millisecond Pulsar in the Globular Cluster NGC 6397.

ZHANG L., RIDOLFI A., BLUMER H., FREIRE P.C.C., MANCHESTER R.N., McLAUGHLIN M., KREMER K., CAMERON A.D., ZHANG Z., BEHREND J., BURGAY M., BUCHNER S., CHAMPION D.J., CHEN W., DAI S., FENG Y., FU X., GUO M., HOBBS G., KEANE E.F., KRAMER M., LEVIN L., LI X., NI M., PAN J., PADMANABH P.V., POSSENTI A., RANSOM S.M., TSAI C.-W., VENKATRAMAN KRISHNAN V., WANG P., ZHANG J., ZHI Q., ZHANG Y. and LI D.

Abstract (from CDS):

We report the discovery of a new 5.78 ms period millisecond pulsar (MSP), PSR J1740-5340B (NGC 6397B), in an eclipsing binary system discovered with the Parkes radio telescope (now also known as Murriyang) in Australia and confirmed with the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa. The measured orbital period, 1.97 days, is the longest among all eclipsing binaries in globular clusters (GCs) and consistent with that of the coincident X-ray source U18, previously suggested to be a “hidden MSP.” Our XMM-Newton observations during NGC 6397B's radio-quiescent epochs detected no X-ray flares. NGC 6397B is either a transitional MSP or an eclipsing binary in its initial stage of mass transfer after the companion star left the main sequence. The discovery of NGC 6397B potentially reveals a subgroup of extremely faint and heavily obscured binary pulsars, thus providing a plausible explanation for the apparent dearth of binary neutron stars in core-collapsed GCs as well as a critical constraint on the evolution of GCs.

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

Journal keyword(s): Globular star clusters - Eclipsing binary stars - Millisecond pulsars

Simbad objects: 15

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