Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2003-09-04
Astrophys.J.596:L211-L214,2003
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
12 pages, 3 figures. ApJ Letters, (in press)
Scientific paper
10.1086/379536
We have used deep high-resolution multiband images taken at the ESO Very Large Telescope to identify the optical binary companion to the millisecond pulsar (PSR J1911-5958A) located in the halo of the Galactic Globular Cluster NGC6752. The object turns out to be a blue star whose position in the Color Magnitude Diagram is consistent with the cooling sequence of a low mass (M~0.17-0.20Mo), low metallicity Helium white dwarf (He-WD) at the cluster distance. This is the second He-WD which has been found to orbit a millisecond pulsar in GGCs. Curiously both objects have been found to lie on the same mass He-WD cooling sequence. The anomalous position of PSR J1911-5958A with respect to the globular cluster center (~6') suggested that this system has recently (<1 Gyr) been ejected from the cluster core as the result of a strong dynamical interaction. The data presented here allows to constrain the cooling age of the companion within a fairly narrow range (~1.2-2.8 Gyr), therefore suggesting that such dynamical encounter must have acted on an already recycled millisecond pulsar.
D'Amico Nichi
Ferraro Francesco R.
Possenti Andrea
Sabbi Elena
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