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American Astronomical Society, Astrophysical Journal, 1(547), p. L37-L40, 2001

DOI: 10.1086/318893

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Discovery of Two Relativistic Neutron Star-White Dwarf Binaries

Journal article published in 2000 by R. T. Edwards, M. Bailes ORCID
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

We have discovered two recycled pulsars in relativistic orbits as part of the first high-frequency survey of intermediate Galactic latitudes. PSR J1157-5112 is a 44 ms pulsar and the first recycled pulsar with an ultra-massive (M > 1.14 Mo) white dwarf companion. Millisecond pulsar J1757-5322 is a relativistic circular-orbit system which will coalesce due to the emission of gravitational radiation in less than 9.5 Gyr. Of the ~40 known circular orbit pulsars, J1757-5322 and J1157-5112 have the highest projected orbital velocities. There are now three local neutron-star/white-dwarf binaries that will coalesce in less than a Hubble time, implying a large coalescence rate for these objects in the local Universe. Systems such as J1141-6545 (Kaspi et al. 2000) are potential gamma-ray burst progenitors and dominate the coalescence rate, whilst lighter systems make excellent progenitors of millisecond pulsars with planetary or ultra-low mass companions. Comment: 4 pages, to appear in ApJ Letters. Uses aastex v 5.0, emulateapj5.sty, apjfonts.sty