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2023ApJ...951L..37L - Astrophys. J., 951, L37 (2023/July-2)

Discovery and Timing Analysis of New Pulsars in Globular Cluster NGC 5024: New Observations from FAST.

LIAN Y., PAN Z., ZHANG H., FREIRE P.C.C., CAO S. and QIAN L.

Abstract (from CDS):

The most distant globular cluster (GC) with known pulsars is NGC 5024 (M53). In this paper, we report the discovery of a new binary millisecond pulsar, PSR J1312+1810E (M53E), and present the new timing solutions for M53B-E based on 22 observations from the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). These discoveries and timing work benefit from FAST's high sensitivity. We find that M53C is the only isolated millisecond pulsar known in this distant GC, with a spin period of 12.53 ms and spin period derivative of 5.26 × 10–20 s s–1. Our results reveal orbital periods of 47.7, 5.8, and 2.4 days for M53B, D, and E, respectively. The companions, with masses of 0.25, 0.27, and 0.18 M⊙, respectively, are likely to be white dwarf stars; if they are extended objects, they do not eclipse the pulsars. We find no X-ray counterparts for these millisecond pulsars in archival Chandra images in the band of 0.3-8 keV. The characteristics of this pulsar population are similar to the population of millisecond pulsars in the Galactic disk, as expected from the low stellar density of M53.

Abstract Copyright: © 2023. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.

Journal keyword(s): Globular star clusters - Millisecond pulsars - Binary pulsars - Radio telescopes

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