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Surrounded by Spiders! New Black Widows and Redbacks in the Galactic Field

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arxiv 1210.6903 v2 pith:M5IPLUDI submitted 2012-10-25 astro-ph.HE astro-ph.GA

Surrounded by Spiders! New Black Widows and Redbacks in the Galactic Field

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Over the last few years, the number of known eclipsing radio millisecond pulsar systems in the Galactic field has dramatically increased, with many being associated with Fermi gamma-ray sources. All are in tight binaries (orbital period < 24 hr) with many being classical "black widows" which have very low mass companions (companion mass Mc << 0.1 Msol) but some are "redbacks" with low mass (Mc ~ 0.2 - 0.4Msol) companions which are probably non-degenerate. These latter are systems where the mass transfer process may have only temporarily halted, and so are transitional systems between low mass X-ray binaries and ordinary binary millisecond pulsars. Here we review the new discoveries and their multi-wavelength properties, and briefly discuss models of shock emission, mass determinations, and evolutionary scenarios.

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