Astronomy:PSR J1544+4937

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Short description: Millisecond pulsar in the constellation Boötes
PSR J1544+4937
Observation data
Equinox J2000.0]] (ICRS)
Constellation Boötes[1]
Right ascension  15h 44m 04.166s[2]
Declination +49° 37′ 57.45″[2]
Characteristics
Spectral type Pulsar
Details
Rotation2.15928839042476 ms[2]
Age12.2 Gyr
Other designations
3FGL J1544.0+4938
Database references
SIMBADdata

PSR J1544+4937 is a pulsar and gamma-ray source.[3] It is a millisecond pulsar with a very short rotation period of 2.1592 milliseconds and is characteristic age of 12.2 billion years old.[2] Additionally, it has a planet or brown dwarf known as PSR J1544+4937 b.[4]

The PSR J1544+4937 planetary system
Companion
(in order from star)
Mass Semimajor axis
(AU)
Orbital period
(days)
Eccentricity Inclination Radius
b 18 MJ 0.00537 0.1207729895±0.0000000001 — — —

See also

  • Black widow pulsar

References

  1. ↑ Roman, Nancy G. (1987). "Identification of a constellation from a position". Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 99 (617): 695. doi:10.1086/132034. Bibcode: 1987PASP...99..695R  Constellation record for this object at VizieR.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Bhattacharyya, B.; Roy, J.; Ray, P. S.; Gupta, Y.; Bhattacharya, D.; Romani, R. W.; Ransom, S. M.; Ferrara, E. C. et al. (2013). "GMRT Discovery of PSR J1544+4937: An Eclipsing Black-Widow Pulsar Identified with a Fermi -Lat Source". The Astrophysical Journal 773 (1): L12. doi:10.1088/2041-8205/773/1/L12. Bibcode: 2013ApJ...773L..12B. 
  3. ↑ "SIMBAD query result". http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-id?protocol=html&Ident=PSR%20J1544+4937. 
  4. ↑ "The Extrasolar Planet Encyclopaedia — PSR J1544+4937 b". Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia. https://exoplanet.eu/catalog/psr_j1544_4937_b--6949/. Retrieved 2021-08-28. 

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