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most citedA pulsar in a binary with a compact object in the mass gap between neutron stars and black holes

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astro-ph.HE2023★ 9 cited

A MeerKAT view of the pulsars in the globular cluster NGC 6522

F. Abbate, A. Ridolfi, P. C. C. Freire +11

We present the results of observations aimed at discovering and studying pulsars in the core-collapsed globular cluster (GC) NGC 6522 performed by the MeerTIME and TRAPUM Large Sur…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 6 cited

Algorithmic Pulsar Timer for Binaries

Jackson Taylor, Scott Ransom, Prajwal V. Padmanabh

Pulsar timing is a powerful tool that, by accounting for every rotation of a pulsar, precisely measures the spin frequency, spin frequency derivatives, astrometric position, binary…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 19 cited

The MPIfR-MeerKAT Galactic Plane Survey II. The eccentric double neutron star system PSR J1208-5936 and a neutron star merger rate update

M. Colom i Bernadich, V. Balakrishnan, E. Barr +16

The MMGPS-L is the most sensitive pulsar survey in the Southern Hemisphere. We present a follow-up study of one of these new discoveries, PSR J1208-5936, a 28.71-ms recycled pulsar…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 53 cited

The MPIfR-MeerKAT Galactic Plane survey I -- System setup and early results

P. V. Padmanabh, E. D. Barr, S. S. Sridhar +30

Galactic plane radio surveys play a key role in improving our understanding of a wide range of astrophysical phenomena. Performing such a survey using the latest interferometric te…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 15 cited

PSR~J19105959A: A rare gravitational laboratory for testing white dwarf models

A. Corongiu, V. Venkatraman Krishnan, P. C. C. Freire +21

PSRJ1910-5959A (J1910A) is a binary millisecond pulsar in a 0.837 day circular orbit around a helium white dwarf (HeWD) companion. This pulsar is located 6.3 arcmin away from the c…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 18 cited

Missing for 20 years: MeerKAT re-detects the elusive binary pulsar M30B

Vishnu Balakrishnan, Paulo Freire, Scott Ransom +14

PSR J21402311B is a 13-ms pulsar discovered in 2001 in a 7.8-hour Green Bank Telescope (GBT) observation of the core-collapsed globular cluster M30 and predicted to be in a high…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 23 cited

MeerKAT discovery of 13 new pulsars in Omega Centauri

W. Chen, P. C. C. Freire, A. Ridolfi +21

The most massive globular cluster in our Galaxy, Omega Centauri, is an interesting target for pulsar searches, because of its multiple stellar populations and the intriguing possib…