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Discovery of Eight Recycled Pulsars – The Swinburne Intermediate Latitude Pulsar Survey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Russell T. Edwards
Russell T. Edwards*
Affiliation:
Centre for Astrophysics & Supercomputing, Swinburne University of TechnologyMail 31 PO Box 218 Hawthorn VIC 3122, Australia

Abstract

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We have conducted a pulsar survey of intermediate Galactic latitudes (5° < |b| < 15°) at 20 cm. The survey has been highly successful, discovering 58 new pulsars, eight of which are recycled, in only ∼14 days of integration time. One pulsar has a very narrow (2° FWHM) average profile for the pulsar’s period (278 ms). The six new recycled binary systems provide valuable information on the formation of white dwarf pulsar binaries. Two systems have massive white dwarf companions (> 0.57 M⊙ and > 1.2 M⊙), while another has a low mass (∼ 0.2 M⊙) companion in a 23.3-d orbit, residing the well-known orbital period “gap”.

Type
Part 1. Searching for Pulsars
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 177: Pulsar Astronomy - 2000 and Beyond , 2000 , pp. 33 - 34
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2000

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