A decade of transitional millisecond pulsars
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| Publication date | 04-06-2018 |
| Journal | Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union |
| Event | Pulsar Astrophysics : the Next 50 Years |
| Volume | Issue number | 13 | S337 |
| Pages (from-to) | 47-51 |
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| 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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| Document type | Article |
| Note | Pulsar Astrophysics : the Next 50 Years : proceedings of the 337th Symposium of the International Astronomical Union held at Jodrell Bank Observatory, United Kingdom, September 4-8 2017, edited by Patrick Weltevrede , Benetge B.P. Perera, Lina Levin Preston, Sotiris Sanidas. |
| Language | English |
| Published at | https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743921317010407 |
| Other links | http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018IAUS..337...47J |
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