Discovery of a 62-min long-period transient with near-orthogonal rotator geometry

Scott D. Hyman, Natasha Hurley-Walker, Dale A. Frail +3

We report the serendipitous discovery of J155543.7$-$563102 (hereafter LPT J1555$-$5631) with a period of 62.2 min in MeerKAT and ASKAP survey data. The source emitted bright (10-3…