Searching for optical pulsations from spider millisecond pulsars with the fast photometer SiFAP2

arXiv:2609.02395 · astro-ph.HE · Submitted 2026-09-02 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-02

Updated: 2026-09-22

Code: https://github.com/scottransom/presto

Terminology

• Calibration — 5× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Society of PhotoOptical Instrumentation Engineers — 3× in this paper
• Telescopio Nazionale Galileo — 2× in this paper
• Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aperture — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope — 1× in this paper

Sources

• Discovery of UV millisecond pulsations and moding in the low mass X-ray binary state of transitional millisecond pulsar J1023+0038
• SpiderCat: A Catalog of Compact Binary Millisecond Pulsars
• Radio Searches of Fermi LAT Sources and Blind Search Pulsars: The Fermi Pulsar Search Consortium
• 3D particle-in-cell simulations of pulsar wind-disk interaction: application to the transitional millisecond pulsar PSR J1023+0038
• X-Ray Studies of Redbacks

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