Binary and Millisecond Pulsars

Details Binary and Millisecond Pulsars Binary and Millisecond Pulsars

2008-11-05

arxiv.org/abs/0811.0762v1

published in Living Rev. Relativity 11, (2008), 8

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Available on-line at http://www.livingreviews.org/lrr-2008-8

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We review the main properties, demographics and applications of binary and millisecond radio pulsars. Our knowledge of these exciting objects has greatly increased in recent years, mainly due to successful surveys which have brought the known pulsar population to over 1800. There are now 83 binary and millisecond pulsars associated with the disk of our Galaxy, and a further 140 pulsars in 26 of the Galactic globular clusters. Recent highlights include the discovery of the young relativistic binary system PSR J1906+0746, a rejuvination in globular cluster pulsar research including growing numbers of pulsars with masses in excess of 1.5 solar masses, a precise measurement of relativistic spin precession in the double pulsar system and a Galactic millisecond pulsar in an eccentric (e=0.44) orbit around an unevolved companion.

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