Living Reviews in Relativity: "Binary and Millisecond Pulsars" updated

2008-11-04

Living Reviews in Relativity
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Today, Living Reviews in Relativity has published
an update of the review article on
"Binary and Millisecond Pulsars" by Duncan R. Lorimer.

Please find the abstract and further details below.

PUB.NO. lrr-2008-8
Lorimer, Duncan R.
"Binary and Millisecond Pulsars"

ACCEPTED: 2008-10-14
PUBLISHED: 2008-11-04

(incl. 31 figures and 406 references)


ABSTRACT:
We review the main properties, demographics and applications of binary and 
millisecond radio pulsars. Our knowledge of these exciting objects has 
greatly increased in recent years, mainly due to successful surveys which 
have brought the known pulsar population to over 1800. There are now 83 
binary and millisecond pulsars associated with the disk of our Galaxy, and 
a further 140 pulsars in 26 of the Galactic globular clusters. Recent 
highlights include the discovery of the young relativistic binary system, 
PSR J1906+0746, a rejuvination in globular cluster pulsar research 
including growing numbers of pulsars with masses in excess of $1.5 
M_{\odot}$, a precise measurement of relativistic spin precession in the 
double pulsar system and a Galactic binary millisecond pulsar with an 
orbital eccentricity of e = 0.44.

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