Discovery of Five Recycled Pulsars in a High Galactic Latitude Survey

Abstract

We present five recycled pulsars discovered during a 21 cm survey of approximately 4150 deg^2 between 15° and 30° from the Galactic plane using the Parkes radio telescope. One new pulsar, PSR J1528−3146, has a 61 ms spin period and a massive white dwarf companion. Like many recycled pulsars with heavy companions, the orbital eccentricity is relatively high (~0.0002), consistent with evolutionary models that predict less time for circularization. The four remaining pulsars have short spin periods (3 ms < P < 6ms); three of these have probable white dwarf binary companions and one (PSR J2010−1323) is isolated. PSR J1600−3053 is relatively bright for its dispersion measure of 52.3 pc cm^−3 and promises good timing precision thanks to an intrinsically narrow feature in its pulse profile, resolvable through coherent dedispersion. In this survey, the recycled pulsar discovery rate was 1 per 4 days of telescope time or 1 per 600 deg^2 of sky. The variability of these sources implies that there are more millisecond pulsars that might be found by repeating this survey.

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