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American Association for the Advancement of Science, Science, 5933(324), p. 1411-1414, 2009

DOI: 10.1126/science.1172740

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A Radio Pulsar/X-ray Binary Link

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Abstract

From X-ray Binary to Pulsar Pulsars with millisecond rotational periods are thought to originate from neutron stars in low-mass x-ray binaries that had their spin frequencies increased by long-lasting mass transfer from their companion stars. Using data from a radio pulsar survey, Archibald et al. (p. 1411 , published online 21 May; see the Perspective by Kramer ) found a neutron star in a low-mass X-ray binary that is in the process of turning into a radio millisecond pulsar. The system, which consists of a solar-like star and a 1.69-millisecond radio pulsar, has gone through a recent accretion phase, characteristic of low-mass X-ray binaries, but it shows no accretion disk anymore, confirming the evolutionary connection between millisecond radio pulsars and low-mass X-ray binaries.