Formation of millisecond pulsars with helium white dwarfs, ultra-compact X-ray binaries, and gravitational wave sources

• Published in: Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Vol. 503; no. 3; pp. 3540 - 3551
• Main Authors: Chen, Hai-Liang, Tauris, Thomas M, Han, Zhanwen, Chen, Xuefei
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 01.05.2021
• Subjects: binaries: close; gravitational waves; white dwarfs; X-rays: binaries; pulsars: general; stars: neutron

ABSTRACT Close-orbit low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs), radio binary millisecond pulsars (BMSPs) with extremely low-mass helium white dwarfs (ELM He WDs) and ultra-compact X-ray binaries (UCXBs) are all part of the same evolutionary sequence. It is therefore of uttermost importance to understand how t...