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Radio pulsations from a neutron star within the gamma-ray binary LS I +61$^{\circ}$ 303

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arxiv 2203.09423 v1 pith:BCOJ345I submitted 2022-03-17 astro-ph.HE

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LS I +61$^{\circ}$ 303 is one of the rare gamma-ray binaries, emitting most of their luminosity in photons with energies beyond 100 MeV. The $\sim$26.5 d orbital period is clearly detected at many wavelengths. Additional aspects of its multi-frequency behavior make it the most interesting example of the class. The morphology of high-resolution radio images changes with orbital phase displaying a cometary tail pointing away from the high-mass star. LS I +61$^{\circ}$ 303 also shows superorbital variability. A couple of energetic ($\sim 10^{37}$ erg s$^{-1}$), short, magnetar-like bursts have been plausibly ascribed to it. LS I +61$^{\circ}$ 303's phenomenology has been put under theoretical scrutiny for decades, but the lack of certainty regarding the nature of the compact object in the binary has prevented advancing our understanding of the source. Here, using observations done with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), we report on the existence of transient radio pulsations from the direction of LS I +61$^{\circ}$ 303. We find a period $P=269.15508 \pm 0.00016$ ms at a significance of $> 20\sigma$. This is the first evidence for pulsations from this source at any frequency, and strongly argues for the existence of a rotating neutron star in LS I +61$^{\circ}$ 303.

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