Discovery of a Young Radio Pulsar in a Relativistic Binary Orbit

Details Discovery of a Young Radio Pulsar in a Relativistic Binary Orbit Discovery of a Young Radio Pulsar in a Relativistic Binary Orbit

2000-05-10

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0005214v2

Astrophys.J.543:321-327,2000

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

18 pages, 4 figures, Accepted for Publication in ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/317103

We report on the discovery of PSR J1141-6545, a radio pulsar in an eccentric, relativistic 5-hr binary orbit. The pulsar shows no evidence for being recycled, having pulse period P = 394 ms, characteristic age tau_c = 1.4 x 10^6 yr, and inferred surface magnetic dipole field strength B = 1.3 x 10^12 G. From the mass function and measured rate of periastron advance, we determine the total mass in the system to be (2.300 +/- 0.012) solar masses, assuming that the periastron advance is purely relativistic. Under the same assumption, we constrain the pulsar's mass to be M_p < 1.348 solar masses and the companion's mass to be M_c > 0.968 solar masses (both 99% confidence). Given the total system mass and the distribution of measured neutron star masses, the companion is probably a massive white dwarf which formed prior to the birth of the pulsar. Optical observations can test this hypothesis.

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