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| author | Dai, Yinfeng Zhu, Xing-Jiang Pan, Zhichen Qian, Lei Zhang, Li-yun Yin, Dejiang Pan, Yu Peng, Bo Li, Baoda Lian, Yujie Li, Yaowei Wu, Yuxiao Huang, Menglin Hao, Qiaoli Wang, Xingyi Niu, Xianghua Song, Jinyou Guo, Minglei Chen, Shuangyuan |
| author_facet | Dai, Yinfeng Zhu, Xing-Jiang Pan, Zhichen Qian, Lei Zhang, Li-yun Yin, Dejiang Pan, Yu Peng, Bo Li, Baoda Lian, Yujie Li, Yaowei Wu, Yuxiao Huang, Menglin Hao, Qiaoli Wang, Xingyi Niu, Xianghua Song, Jinyou Guo, Minglei Chen, Shuangyuan |
| contents | We report the discovery of six faint millisecond pulsars (MSPs) in the globular clusters NGC 6517 and NGC 7078 (M15) using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). These discoveries were enabled by stacking power spectra from multiple observations, a method that effectively boosts the signal-to-noise ratio of faint sources. In NGC 6517, we identified four new MSPs (NGC 6517S-V) with spin periods ranging from 3.68 to 6.02 ms and dispersion measures (DMs) between 182.45 and 182.85 pc cm^-3. In M15, two additional MSPs (M15M and M15N) were discovered, with spin periods of 4.83 and 9.28 ms, and DMs of 67.89 and 66.65 pc cm^-3, respectively. A phase-coherent timing solution has been obtained for M15M; however, sparse detection rates currently preclude phase-connected solutions for the remaining five pulsars. Current timing parameters suggest all six MSPs are isolated, which is consistent with the expected pulsar populations in core-collapsed globular clusters. Notably, pulsars M15N, NGC 6517U, and NGC 6517V eluded detection by standard frequency-domain searches (e.g., PRESTO-based) and the Fast Folding Algorithm, demonstrating that the stack search technique significantly enhances detection sensitivity to inherently faint pulsar signals. |
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| spellingShingle | The Stack Search Tests on FAST Data: Discovery of Six Faint Isolated Millisecond Pulsars in NGC 6517 and NGC 7078 (M15) Dai, Yinfeng Zhu, Xing-Jiang Pan, Zhichen Qian, Lei Zhang, Li-yun Yin, Dejiang Pan, Yu Peng, Bo Li, Baoda Lian, Yujie Li, Yaowei Wu, Yuxiao Huang, Menglin Hao, Qiaoli Wang, Xingyi Niu, Xianghua Song, Jinyou Guo, Minglei Chen, Shuangyuan High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena We report the discovery of six faint millisecond pulsars (MSPs) in the globular clusters NGC 6517 and NGC 7078 (M15) using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). These discoveries were enabled by stacking power spectra from multiple observations, a method that effectively boosts the signal-to-noise ratio of faint sources. In NGC 6517, we identified four new MSPs (NGC 6517S-V) with spin periods ranging from 3.68 to 6.02 ms and dispersion measures (DMs) between 182.45 and 182.85 pc cm^-3. In M15, two additional MSPs (M15M and M15N) were discovered, with spin periods of 4.83 and 9.28 ms, and DMs of 67.89 and 66.65 pc cm^-3, respectively. A phase-coherent timing solution has been obtained for M15M; however, sparse detection rates currently preclude phase-connected solutions for the remaining five pulsars. Current timing parameters suggest all six MSPs are isolated, which is consistent with the expected pulsar populations in core-collapsed globular clusters. Notably, pulsars M15N, NGC 6517U, and NGC 6517V eluded detection by standard frequency-domain searches (e.g., PRESTO-based) and the Fast Folding Algorithm, demonstrating that the stack search technique significantly enhances detection sensitivity to inherently faint pulsar signals. |
| title | The Stack Search Tests on FAST Data: Discovery of Six Faint Isolated Millisecond Pulsars in NGC 6517 and NGC 7078 (M15) |
| topic | High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.08268 |