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Super-Massive Neutron Stars and Compact Binary Millisecond Pulsars

Linares, Manuel

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The maximum mass of a neutron star has important implications across multiple research fields, including astrophysics, nuclear physics and gravitational wave astronomy.

Compact binary millisecond pulsars (with orbital periods shorter than about a day) are a rapidly-growing pulsar population, and provide a good opportunity to search for the most massive neutron stars.
Applying a new method to measure the velocity of both sides of the companion star, we previously found that the compact binary millisecond pulsar PSR J2215+5135 hosts one of the most massive neutron stars known to date, with a mass of 2.27$\pm$0.16 M$_\odot$ (Linares, Shahbaz & Casares, 2018).
We reexamine the properties of the 0.33 M$_\odot$ companion star, heated by the pulsar, and argue that irradiation in this "redback" binary is extreme yet stable, symmetric and not necessarily produced by an extended source.

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