Investigating four new candidate redback pulsars discovered in the image plane
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| author | Petrou, Flora Hurley-Walker, Natasha McSweeney, Sam Sett, Susmita Kyer, Rebecca Tan, Chia Min Maan, Yogesh Bahramian, Arash Dobie, Dougal Kaplan, David Zic, Andrew Deneva, Julia Murphy, Tara Polisensky, Emil Anumarlapudi, Akash |
| author_facet | Petrou, Flora Hurley-Walker, Natasha McSweeney, Sam Sett, Susmita Kyer, Rebecca Tan, Chia Min Maan, Yogesh Bahramian, Arash Dobie, Dougal Kaplan, David Zic, Andrew Deneva, Julia Murphy, Tara Polisensky, Emil Anumarlapudi, Akash |
| contents | This paper reports the discovery and follow-up of four candidate redback spider pulsars: GPM J1723-33, GPM J1734-28, GPM J1752-30 and GPM J1815-14, discovered with the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) from an imaging survey of the Galactic Plane. These sources are considered to be redback candidates based on their eclipsing variability, steep negative spectral indices, and potential Fermi $γ$-ray associations, with GPM J1723-33 and GPM J1815-14 lying within a Fermi 95% error ellipse. Follow-up pulsation searches with MeerKAT confirmed pulsations from GPM J1723-33, while the non-detections of the other three are likely due to scattering by material ablated from their companion stars. We identify possible orbital periods by applying folding algorithms to the light curves and determine that all sources have short orbital periods (<24 hours), consistent with redback spider systems. Following up on the sources at multiple radio frequencies revealed that the sources exhibit frequency-dependent eclipses, with longer eclipses observed at lower frequencies. We place broad constraints on the eclipse medium, ruling out induced Compton scattering and cyclotron absorption. Three sources are spatially consistent with optical sources in the Dark Energy Camera Plane Survey imaging, which may contain the optical counterparts. Each field is affected by strong dust extinction, and follow-up with large telescopes is needed to identify the true counterparts. Identifying potential radio counterparts to four previously unassociated Fermi sources brings us closer to understanding the origin of the unexplained $γ$-ray excess in the Galactic Centre. |
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| spellingShingle | Investigating four new candidate redback pulsars discovered in the image plane Petrou, Flora Hurley-Walker, Natasha McSweeney, Sam Sett, Susmita Kyer, Rebecca Tan, Chia Min Maan, Yogesh Bahramian, Arash Dobie, Dougal Kaplan, David Zic, Andrew Deneva, Julia Murphy, Tara Polisensky, Emil Anumarlapudi, Akash High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Astrophysics of Galaxies Solar and Stellar Astrophysics This paper reports the discovery and follow-up of four candidate redback spider pulsars: GPM J1723-33, GPM J1734-28, GPM J1752-30 and GPM J1815-14, discovered with the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) from an imaging survey of the Galactic Plane. These sources are considered to be redback candidates based on their eclipsing variability, steep negative spectral indices, and potential Fermi $γ$-ray associations, with GPM J1723-33 and GPM J1815-14 lying within a Fermi 95% error ellipse. Follow-up pulsation searches with MeerKAT confirmed pulsations from GPM J1723-33, while the non-detections of the other three are likely due to scattering by material ablated from their companion stars. We identify possible orbital periods by applying folding algorithms to the light curves and determine that all sources have short orbital periods (<24 hours), consistent with redback spider systems. Following up on the sources at multiple radio frequencies revealed that the sources exhibit frequency-dependent eclipses, with longer eclipses observed at lower frequencies. We place broad constraints on the eclipse medium, ruling out induced Compton scattering and cyclotron absorption. Three sources are spatially consistent with optical sources in the Dark Energy Camera Plane Survey imaging, which may contain the optical counterparts. Each field is affected by strong dust extinction, and follow-up with large telescopes is needed to identify the true counterparts. Identifying potential radio counterparts to four previously unassociated Fermi sources brings us closer to understanding the origin of the unexplained $γ$-ray excess in the Galactic Centre. |
| title | Investigating four new candidate redback pulsars discovered in the image plane |
| topic | High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Astrophysics of Galaxies Solar and Stellar Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25943 |