Companion star of a binary millisecond pulsar

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Nov 1986

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986natur.324..127w&link_type=abstract

Nature (ISSN 0028-0836), vol. 324, Nov. 13, 1986, p. 127, 128. NSF-supported research.

Computer Science

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Binary Stars, Companion Stars, Pulsars, Stellar Evolution, Stellar Temperature, White Dwarf Stars, Data Reduction, Isophotes, Main Sequence Stars, Pixels, Stellar Color, Stellar Spectrophotometry

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The authors have searched for and identified the companion star of the recently discovered binary millisecond pulsar PSR 1855+09. The optical counterpart is compatible with a 0.3 M_sun; white dwarf with a surface temperature of ≡5,900K. This is in accord with currently accepted ideas on the genesis of such a fast binary pulsar. The low temperature of the white dwarf implies that the system is >109yr old. Such an old pulsar is not easily accounted for by the conventional theory, in which the pulsar ceases to be active after its magnetic field decays, a process believed to take ≡107yr.

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