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A decade of transitional millisecond pulsars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 June 2018

Amruta Jaodand ,
Jason W. T. Hessels  and
Anne Archibald
Amruta Jaodand
Affiliation:
ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, the Netherlands Astronomical Institute Anton Pannekoek, University of Amsterdam, 1098XH, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Jason W. T. Hessels
Affiliation:
ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, the Netherlands Astronomical Institute Anton Pannekoek, University of Amsterdam, 1098XH, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Anne Archibald
Affiliation:
Astronomical Institute Anton Pannekoek, University of Amsterdam, 1098XH, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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Abstract

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Transitional millisecond pulsars (tMSPs), which are systems that harbor a pulsar in the throes of the recycling process, have emerged as a new source class since the discovery of the first such system a decade ago. These systems switch between accretion-powered low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) and rotation-powered radio millisecond pulsar (RMSP) states, and provide exciting avenues to understand the physical processes that spin-up neutron stars to millisecond periods. During the last decade, three tMSPs, as well as a candidate source, have been extensively probed using systematic, multi-wavelength campaigns. Here we review the observational highlights from these campaigns and our general understanding of tMSPs.

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Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 13 , Symposium S337: Pulsar Astrophysics the Next Fifty Years , September 2017 , pp. 47 - 51
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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2018 

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