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Autori principali: Barr, Ewan D., Dutta, Arunima, Freire, Paulo C. C., Cadelano, Mario, Gautam, Tasha, Kramer, Michael, Pallanca, Cristina, Ransom, Scott M., Ridolfi, Alessandro, Stappers, Benjamin W., Tauris, Thomas M., Krishnan, Vivek Venkatraman, Wex, Norbert, Bailes, Matthew, Behrend, Jan, Buchner, Sarah, Burgay, Marta, Chen, Weiwei, Champion, David J., Chen, C. -H. Rosie, Corongiu, Alessandro, Geyer, Marisa, Men, Y. P., Padmanabh, Prajwal V., Possenti, Andrea
Natura: Preprint
Pubblicazione: 2024
Soggetti:
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Nuclear Theory
Accesso online:https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.09872
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  • Among the compact objects observed in gravitational wave merger events a few have masses in the gap between the most massive neutron stars (NSs) and least massive black holes (BHs) known. Their nature and the formation of their merging binaries are not well understood. We report on pulsar timing observations using the Karoo Array Telescope (MeerKAT) of PSR J0514-4002E, an eccentric binary millisecond pulsar in the globular cluster NGC 1851 with a total binary mass of $3.887 \pm 0.004$ solar masses. The companion to the pulsar is a compact object and its mass (between $2.09$ and $2.71$ solar masses, 95% confidence interval) is in the mass gap, so it either is a very massive NS or a low-mass BH. We propose the companion was formed by a merger between two earlier NSs.

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