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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS
Volume 807, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/807/2/L23
Keywords
binaries: close; equation of state; globular clusters: individual (NGC 6652, NGC 6388); gravitation; pulsars: individual (NGC 6652A)
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Funding
- NSF [AST-1312822]
- NASA's CRESST grant [01526268]
- Chief of Naval Research (CNR)
- NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowship [AST-1302765]
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Astronomical Sciences [1302765] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Astronomical Sciences
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1312822] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Physics
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1430284] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Office Of The Director
- Office Of Internatl Science &Engineering [0968296] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We present the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope discovery of the highly eccentric binary millisecond pulsar PSR J1835-3259A in the Fermi Large Area Telescope-detected globular cluster NGC 6652. Timing over one orbit yields the pulse period 3.89 ms, orbital period 9.25 days, eccentricity similar to 0.95, and an unusually high companion mass of 0.74 M-circle dot assuming a 1.4 M-circle dot pulsar. We caution that the lack of data near periastron prevents a precise measurement of the eccentricity, and that further timing is necessary to constrain this and the other orbital parameters. From tidal considerations, we find that the companion must be a compact object. This system likely formed through an exchange encounter in the dense cluster environment. Our initial timing results predict the measurements of at least two post- Keplerian parameters with long-term phase-connected timing: the rate of periastron advance omega similar to 0.degrees 1 yr(-1), requiring 1 year of phase connection; and the Einstein delay gamma(GR) similar to 10 ms, requiring 2-3 years of timing. For an orbital inclination i > 50 degrees, a measurement of sin i is also likely. PSR J1835-3259A thus provides an opportunity to measure the neutron star mass with high precision, to probe the cluster environment, and, depending on the nature of the companion, to investigate the limits of general relativity.
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