Transitional Millisecond Pulsars
Date Issued
2022
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Abstract
Millisecond pulsars in tight binaries have recently challenged our understanding of physical processes governing the evolution of binaries and the interaction between astrophysical plasma and electromagnetic fields. Transitional systems that showed changes from rotation-powered to accretion-powered states and vice versa have bridged the populations of radio and accreting millisecond pulsars, eventually demonstrating the tight evolutionary link envisaged by the recycling scenario. A decade of discoveries and theoretical efforts have just grasped the complex phenomenology of transitional millisecond pulsars from the radio to the gamma-ray bands. This chapter summarizes the main properties of the three transitional millisecond pulsars discovered so far, as well as of candidates and related systems, discussing the various models proposed to cope with their multifaceted behaviour.
Coverage
Millisecond Pulsars
Volume
465
Start page
157
Issn Identifier
0067-0057
Ads BibCode
2022ASSL..465..157P
Rights
open.access
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