Discovery of the Slowest Radio Pulsar in the Small Magellanic Cloud

arXiv:2610.12143 · astro-ph.HE, astro-ph.GA · Submitted 2026-10-08 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.HE, astro-ph.GA

Submitted: 2026-10-08

Updated: 2026-10-08

Code: https://github.com/ewanbarr/peasoup

Terminology

• Small Magellanic Cloud — 6× in this paper
• Core — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Metallicity — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

Sources

• NE2001.I. A New Model for the Galactic Distribution of Free Electrons and its Fluctuations
• Be/X-ray Binaries

Related papers

• Numerical Studies of Accretion Flows onto a Neutron Star Engulfed in a Massive Star
• Collisionless Accretion of Finite-Angular-Momentum Plasma onto a Spinning Black Hole
• Impact of Magnetic Field Topology on Electromagnetic and Gravitational Waves from Binary Neutron Star Merger Remnants
• XRISM Resolve Spectroscopy of GX 5-1: Constraints on Iron Spectral Features in a Luminous Neutron-Star Binary
• SN 1006: A Cosmic Laboratory for Investigating Shock Acceleration Physics
• Neutrino Spectral Pinching in 3D Core-Collapse Supernovae: Late-Time Convergence, Failed-Explosion Signatures, and Viewing-Angle Dispersion