Optical Follow-Up of Two Spider Pulsar Candidates: An Irradiated Redback and a Possible Double Giant Impostor

Bettina Due, Jundile Bridziute, Manuel Linares +2

Compact binary millisecond pulsars (nicknamed "spiders") are a growing class of neutron stars: more than 100 systems are known in the Galactic field, including more than 30 candida…