New eclipsing binary millisecond pulsar discovered by FAST
Tuesday, March 3, 2020 - 09:10
in Astronomy & Space
Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), astronomers have discovered a new eclipsing binary millisecond pulsar in the globular cluster NGC 6341 (or M92). The newly found object received designation PSR J1717+4308A or M92A. The finding is detailed in a paper published February 24 on arXiv.org.