Orbital Variability in the Eclipsing Pulsar Binary PSR B1957+20

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1993-12-15

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9312032v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

9 pages, 3 figures, LaTeX, submitted ApJL 13 Dec. 1993, arz-001

Scientific paper

10.1086/187346

We have conducted timing observations of the eclipsing millisecond binary pulsar PSR~B1957+20, extending the span of data on this pulsar to more than five years. During this time the orbital period of the system has varied by roughly $\Delta P_b/P_b = 1.6 \times 10^{-7}$, changing quadratically with time and displaying an orbital period second derivative $\ddot P_b = (1.43 \pm 0.08) \times 10^{-18}\,$s$^{-1}$. The previous measurement of a large negative orbital period derivative reflected only the short-term behavior of the system during the early observations; the orbital period derivative is now positive and increasing rapidly. If, as we suspect, the PSR~B1957+20 system is undergoing quasi-cyclic orbital period variations similar to those found in other close binaries such as Algol and RS CVn, then the $0.025\,M{_\odot}$ companion to PSR~B1957+20 is most likely non-degenerate, convective, and magnetically active.

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