A radio pulsar/X-ray binary link

Science

Volumn 324, Issue 5933, 2009, Pages 1411-1414

  Archibald, Anne M ^a   Stairs, Ingrid H ^b,c,d   Ransom, Scott M ^e   Kaspi, Victoria M ^a   Kondratiev, Vladislav I ^e,f,g   Lorimer, Duncan R ^f,h   McLaughlin, Maura A ^f,h   Boyles, Jason ^f,h   Hessels, Jason W T ^i,j   Lynch, Ryan ^k   Van Leeuwen, Joeri ^i,j   Roberts, Mallory S E ^l   Jenet, Frederick ^m   Champion, David J ^c   Rosen, Rachel ^h   Barlow, Brad N ⁿ   Dunlap, Bart H ⁿ   Remillard, Ronald A ^o  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^e NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^f WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g LEBEDEV PHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^h NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

ⁱ ASTRON   (Netherlands)

^j UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^k UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^l EUREKA SCIENTIFIC   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT BROWNSVILLE   (United States)

ⁿ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^o MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; ASTRONOMY; EXTRATERRESTRIAL MATTER; OPTICAL METHOD; RADIO WAVE; X-RAY;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; FIELD EMISSION; FOLLOW UP; MAGNETIC FIELD; OBSERVATION; POLARIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED ELECTRIC FIELD; ROTATION; SIGNAL DETECTION; X RAY;

EID: 67149116783     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1172740     Document Type: Article

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26. We thank J. Condon of the NRAO for pointing out that J1023 lay within our survey beam; B. Stappers for help with WSRT observations and analysis; and S. Bogdanov, J. Thorstensen, and Z. Wang for useful discussions. The Robert C. Byrd GBT is operated by the NRAO, which is a facility of the U.S. NSF operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc. The Arecibo Observatory is part of the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center, which is operated by Cornell University under a cooperative agreement with NSF. The Parkes Observatory radio telescope is part of the Australia Telescope, which is funded by the Commonwealth of Australia for operation as a National Facility managed by CSIRO. The WSRT is operated by the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, with support from the Netherlands Foundation for Scientific Research (NWO). We thank the directors of all four facilities for their generous allocation of exploratory time to this project. ASP and GASP are collaborations funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and NSF; I.H.S. and J.v.L. thank their co-developers D. Backer, D. Nice, P. Demorest, R. Ferdman, I. Cognard, and R. Ramachandran for their hardware and/or software contributions, and P. Demorest and W. van Straten for making the PSRCHIVE software compatible with ASP/GASP data. We further thank M. Bailes, S. Kulkarni, and the others in the Caltech-Green-Bank-Swinburne-Recorder collaboration for the use of some of their computer nodes during GASP observations. J.R.B., V.I.K., D.R.L., and M.A.M. are supported by a West Virginia Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) Research Challenge Grant. M.A.M. is an Alfred P. Sloan fellow. J.W.T.H. is an NWO Veni Fellow. V.M.K. is supported via the Lorne Trottier Chair in Astrophysics and Cosmology, the Canada Research Chair program, an NSERC Discovery Grant, the Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Nature et les Technologies, the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, and the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI). I.H.S. received support from NSERC, the CFI, the Australia Telescope National Facility Distinguished Visitor program, and the Swinburne University of Technology Visiting Distinguished Researcher Scheme.