Discovery of the millisecond pulsar PSR J2043+1711 in a Fermi source with the Nancay Radio Telescope

Details Discovery of the millisecond pulsar PSR J2043+1711 in a Fermi source with the Nancay Radio Telescope Discovery of the millisecond pulsar PSR J2043+1711 in a Fermi source with the Nancay Radio Telescope

2012-02-06

arxiv.org/abs/1202.1128v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

14 pages, 6 figures, 3 tables, accepted for publication in MNRAS

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We report the discovery of the millisecond pulsar PSR J2043+1711 in a search of a Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) source with no known associations, with the Nancay Radio Telescope. The new pulsar, confirmed with the Green Bank Telescope, has a spin period of 2.38 ms, is relatively nearby (d <~ 2 kpc), and is in a 1.48 day orbit around a low mass companion, probably a He-type white dwarf. Pulsed gamma-ray emission was detected in the data recorded by the Fermi LAT. The gamma-ray light curve and spectral properties are typical of other gamma-ray millisecond pulsars seen with Fermi. X-ray observations of the pulsar with Suzaku and the Swift/XRT yielded no detection. At 1.4 GHz we observe strong flux density variations because of interstellar diffractive scintillation, however a sharp peak can be observed at this frequency during bright scintillation states. At 327 MHz the pulsar is detected with a much higher signal-to-noise ratio and its flux density is far more steady. However, at that frequency the Arecibo instrumentation cannot yet fully resolve the pulse profile. Despite that, our pulse time-of-arrival measurements have a post-fit residual rms of 2 \mus. This and the expected stability of this system has made PSR J2043+1711 one of the first new Fermi-selected millisecond pulsars to be added to pulsar gravitational wave timing arrays. It has also allowed a significant measurement of relativistic delays in the times of arrival of the pulses due to the curvature of space-time near the companion, but not yet with enough precision to derive useful masses for the pulsar and the companion. A mass for the pulsar between 1.7 and 2.0 solar masses can be derived if a standard millisecond pulsar formation model is assumed. In this article we also present a comprehensive summary of pulsar searches in Fermi LAT sources with the Nancay Radio Telescope to date.

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