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American Astronomical Society, Astrophysical Journal, 2(452), 1995

DOI: 10.1086/309725

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Optical observations of the binary millisecond pulsars J2145-0750 and J0034-0534

Journal article published in 1995 by J. F. Bell, S. R. Kulkarni, M. Bailes ORCID, E. M. Leitch, A. G. Lyne
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

We report on optical observations of the low-mass binary millisecond pulsar systems J0034-0534 and J2145-0750. A faint (I=23.5) object was found to be coincident with the timing position of PSR J2145-0750. While a galaxy or distant main-sequence star cannot be ruled out, its magnitude is consistent with an ancient white dwarf, as expected from evolutionary models. For PSR J0034-0534 no objects were detected to a limiting magnitude of R=25.0, suggesting that the white dwarf in this system is cold. Using white dwarf cooling models, the limit on the magnitude of the PSR J0034-0534 companion suggests that at birth the pulsar in this system may have rotated with a period as short as 0.6 ms. These observations provide further evidence that the magnetic fields of millisecond pulsars do not decay on time scales shorter than 1 Gyr. Comment: 6 pages, uuencoded, gz -9 compressed postscript, accepted by ApJL