MSP binaries as astrophysical laboratories
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Wadiasingh, Zorawar
Venter, Christo
Böttcher, Markus
Harding, Alice K.
Baring, Matthew G.
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Cambridge Univ Press
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Follow-up of unidentified Fermi sources has expanded the number of known galactic-field “black widow” and “redback” millisecond pulsar binaries from four to nearly 30. Several systems observed by Chandra, XMM-Newton, Suzaku, and NuSTAR exhibit double-peaked X-ray orbital modulation. This is attributed to synchrotron emission from electrons accelerated in an intrabinary shock and Doppler boosting by mildly relativistic bulk flow. We briefly discuss the rich complexity of these systems, their astrophysical utility, and open questions
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Wadiasingh, Z. et al. 2018. MSP binaries as astrophysical laboratories. (In Weltevrede, P., Perera, B.B.P., Preston, L.L. & Sanidas, S., eds. Pulsar astrophysics the next fifty years. Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 13 (Symposium 337):420-421. [https://doi.org/10.1017/S174392131700905X]