Discovery and Timing of Pulsars in the Globular Cluster M13 with FAST

• Published in: The Astrophysical journal Vol. 892; no. 1; pp. 43 - 52
• Main Authors: Wang, Lin, Peng, Bo, Stappers, B. W., Liu, Kuo, Keith, M. J., Lyne, A. G., Lu, Jiguang, Yu, Ye-Zhao, Kou, Feifei, Yan, Jun, Jiang, Peng, Jin, Chengjin, Li, Di, Li, Qi, Qian, Lei, Wang, Qiming, Yue, Youling, Zhang, Haiyan, Zhang, Shuxin, Zhu, Yan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Philadelphia The American Astronomical Society 20.03.2020; IOP Publishing
• Subjects: Apertures; Astrophysics; Binary systems; Companion stars; Globular clusters; Millisecond pulsars; Orbits; Period search; Pulsar timing method; Pulsars; Radio telescopes
• ISSN: 0004-637X; 1538-4357
• DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab76cc

We report the discovery of a binary millisecond pulsar (namely PSR J1641+3627F or M13F) in the globular cluster (GC) M13 (NGC 6205) and timing solutions of M13A to F using observations made with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope. PSR J1641+3627F has a spin period of 3.00 ms and an orbital period of 1.4 days. The most likely companion mass is 0.13 M . M13A to E all have short spin periods and small period derivatives. We also confirm that the binary millisecond pulsar PSR J1641+3627E (also M13E) is a black widow with a companion mass around 0.02 M . We find that all the binary systems have low eccentricities compared to those typical for GC pulsars and that they decrease with distance from the cluster core. This is consistent with what is expected, as this cluster has a very low encounter rate per binary.