Ryan S. Lynch, Paulo C. C. Freire, Scott M. Ransom, Bryan A. Jacoby
We have used the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope to time nine previously
known pulsars without published timing solutions in the globular clusters M62,
NGC 6544, and NGC 6624. We have full timing solutions that measure the spin,
astrometric, and (where applicable) binary parameters for six of these pulsars.
The remaining three pulsars (reported here for the first time) were not
detected enough to establish solutions. We also report our timing solutions for
five pulsars with previously published solutions, and find good agreement with
past authors, except for PSR J1701-3006B in M62. Gas in this system is probably
responsible for the discrepancy in orbital parameters, and we have been able to
measure a change in the orbital period over the course of our observations.
Among the pulsars with new solutions we find several binary pulsars with very
low mass companions (members of the so-called "black widow" class) and we are
able to place constraints on the mass-to-light ratio in two clusters. We
confirm that one of the pulsars in NGC 6624 is indeed a member of the rare
class of non-recycled pulsars found in globular clusters. We also have measured
the orbital precession and Shapiro delay for a relativistic binary in NGC 6544.
If we assume that the orbital precession can be described entirely by general
relativity, which is likely, we are able to measure the total system mass
(2.57190(73) M_sun) and companion mass (1.2064(20) M_sun), from which we derive
the orbital inclination [sin(i) = 0.9956(14)] and the pulsar mass (1.3655(21)
M_sun), the most precise such measurement ever obtained for a millisecond
pulsar. The companion is the most massive known around a fully recycled pulsar.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.2612
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