Searches for planets around neutron stars

A. Wolszczan

doi:10.1023/A:1008279312993

Searches for planets around neutron stars

A. Wolszczan

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Abstract. We review the methodology of searches for planet-mass bodies around neutron stars observable as radio pulsars and discuss the current status of these searches. PSR B1257+12, a 6.2-millisecond pulsar, remains the only neutron star accompanied by confirmed planets. It is possible that there is a fourth distant planet in the 1257+12 system. The best of the other candidates for pulsar planets under consideration is a distant, possibly Jovian-mass companion to PSR B1620-26, a 11-millisecond pulsar in the globular cluster M4.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	13-25
Number of pages	13
Journal	Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy
Volume	68
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008279312993
State	Published - Jan 1 1997

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Modeling and Simulation
Mathematical Physics
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Space and Planetary Science
Computational Mathematics
Applied Mathematics

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