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arxiv: 1211.1385 · v2 · submitted 2012-11-06 · 🌌 astro-ph.HE · astro-ph.GA· gr-qc

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Binary Millisecond Pulsar Discovery via Gamma-Ray Pulsations

H. J. Pletsch , L. Guillemot , H. Fehrmann , B. Allen , M. Kramer , C. Aulbert , M. Ackermann , M. Ajello
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Millisecond pulsars, old neutron stars spun-up by accreting matter from a companion star, can reach high rotation rates of hundreds of revolutions per second. Until now, all such "recycled" rotation-powered pulsars have been detected by their spin-modulated radio emission. In a computing-intensive blind search of gamma-ray data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope (with partial constraints from optical data), we detected a 2.5-millisecond pulsar, PSR J1311-3430. This unambiguously explains a formerly unidentified gamma-ray source that had been a decade-long enigma, confirming previous conjectures. The pulsar is in a circular orbit with an orbital period of only 93 minutes, the shortest of any spin-powered pulsar binary ever found.

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