Astrophysical: Pulsars

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    Einstein@Home discovery of the gamma-ray millisecond pulsar PSR J2039-5617 confirms its predicted redback nature
    The Fermi Large Area Telescope gamma-ray source 3FGL J2039.6-5618 contains a periodic optical and X-ray source that was predicted to be a 'redback' millisecond...
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    Evidence of intra-binary shock emission from the redback pulsar PSR J1048+2339
    We present simultaneous multiwavelength observations of the 4.66 ms redback pulsar PSR J1048+2339. We performed phase-resolved spectroscopy with the Very Large...
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    Extinction as a tool to find distances to X-ray sources
    Finding distances in astronomy is notoriously difficult. With accurate optical spectroscopy, both the distance to and extinction (reddening) of normal stars can...
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    Fast quasi-periodic oscillations in the eclipsing polar VV Puppis from VLT and XMM-Newton observations
    We present high time resolution optical photometric data of the polar VV Puppis obtained simultaneously in three filters (u', HeII λ4686, r') with the ULTRACAM...
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    Faulkes Telescope monitoring of the current outburst of IGR J00291+5934
    As part of an optical monitoring project of low-mass X-ray binaries (
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    First all-sky upper limits from LIGO on the strength of periodic gravitational waves using the Hough transform
    We perform a wide parameter-space search for continuous gravitational waves over the whole sky and over a large range of values of the frequency and the first...
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    First measurement of the total gravitational quadrupole moment of a black widow companion
    We present the first measurement of the gravitational quadrupole moment of the companion star of a spider pulsar, namely the black widow PSR J2051-0827. To this...
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    Galactic population of radio and gamma-ray pulsars
    We simulate the characteristics of the Galactic population of radio and gamma-ray pulsars using Monte Carlo techniques. At birth, neutron stars are spatially...
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    Galactic population of radio and gamma-ray pulsars
    We simulate the characteristics of the Galactic population of radio and gamma-ray pulsars using Monte Carlo techniques. At birth, neutron stars are spatially...