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Long-term observations of the pulsars in 47 Tucanae. I. A study of four elusive binary systems | A. Ridolfi
; P. Freire
; P. Torne
; C. O. Heinke
; M. van den Berg
; C. Jordan
; M. Kramer
; C. G. Bassa
; J. Sarkissian
; N. D'Amico
; D. Lorimer
; F. Camilo
; R. N. Manchester
; A. Lyne
; | Date: |
25 Jul 2016 | Abstract: | For the past couple of decades, the Parkes radio telescope has been regularly
observing the millisecond pulsars in 47 Tucanae (47 Tuc). This long-term timing
program was designed to address a wide range of scientific issues related to
these pulsars and the globular cluster where they are located. In this paper,
the first of a series, we address one of these objectives: the characterization
of four previously known binary pulsars for which no precise orbital parameters
were known, namely 47 Tuc P, V, W and X (pulsars 47 Tuc R and Y are discussed
elsewhere). We determined the previously unknown orbital parameters of 47 Tuc V
and X and greatly improved those of 47 Tuc P and W. For pulsars W and X we
obtained, for the first time, full coherent timing solutions across the whole
data span, which allowed a much more detailed characterization of these
systems. 47 Tuc W, a well-known tight eclipsing binary pulsar, exhibits a large
orbital period variability, as expected for a system of its class. 47 Tuc X
turns out to be in a wide, extremely circular, 10.9-day long binary orbit and
its position is ~3.8 arcmin away from the cluster center, more than three times
the distance of any other pulsar in 47 Tuc. These characteristics make 47 Tuc X
a very different object with respect to the other pulsars of the cluster. | Source: | arXiv, 1607.7248 | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites |
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