The Parkes Multibeam Pulsar Survey: PSR J1811−1736, a pulsar in a highly eccentric binary system |
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| Authors: | A G Lyne F Camilo R N Manchester J F Bell V M Kaspi N D'Amico N P F McKay F Crawford D J Morris D C Sheppard I H Stairs |
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| Institution: | University of Manchester, Jodrell Bank, Macclesfield, Cheshire SK11 9DL; Australia Telescope National Facility, CSIRO, PO Box 76, Epping, NSW 1710, Australia; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for Space Research, 70 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA; Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna, via Ranzani 1, 40127 Bologna, Italy; Istituto di Radioastronomia del CNR, via Gobetti 101, 40129 Bologna, Italy |
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| Abstract: | We are undertaking a high-frequency survey of the Galactic plane for radio pulsars, using the 13-element multibeam receiver on the 64-m Parkes radio telescope. We describe briefly the survey system and some of the initial results. PSR J1811?1736, one of the first pulsars discovered with this system, has a rotation period of 104 ms. Subsequent timing observations using the 76-m radio telescope at Jodrell Bank show that it is in an 18.8-d, highly eccentric binary orbit. We have measured the rate of advance of periastron which indicates a total system mass of 2.6±0.9 M⊙, and the minimum companion mass is about 0.7 M⊙. This, the high orbital eccentricity and the recycled nature of the pulsar suggest that this system is composed of two neutron stars, only the fourth or fifth such system known in the disc of the Galaxy. |
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| Keywords: | methods: observational binaries: general stars: neutron pulsars: general pulsars: individual: J1811?1736 |
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