Observations of 20 millisecond pulsars in 47 Tucanae at 20 cm

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1999-11-12

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9911234v1

Astrophys.J.535:975,2000

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

15 pages, 6 embedded EPS figures, to be published in The Astrophysical Journal

Scientific paper

10.1086/308859

We have used a new observing system on the Parkes radio telescope to carry out a series of pulsar observations of the globular cluster 47 Tucanae at 20-cm wavelength. We detected all 11 previously known pulsars, and have discovered nine others, all of which are millisecond pulsars in binary systems. We have searched the data for relatively short orbital period systems, and found one pulsar with an orbital period of 96 min, the shortest of any known radio pulsar. The increased rate of detections with the new system resulted in improved estimates of the flux density of the previously known pulsars, determination of the orbital parameters of one of them, and a coherent timing solution for another one. Five of the pulsars now known in 47 Tucanae have orbital periods of a few hours and implied companion masses of only ~ 0.03 Msun. Two of these are eclipsed at some orbital phases, while three are seen at all phases at 20 cm but not always at lower frequencies. Four and possibly six of the other binary systems have longer orbital periods and companion masses ~ 0.2 Msun, with at least two of them having relatively large orbital eccentricities. All 20 pulsars have rotation periods in the range 2-8 ms.

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