# An Eccentric Binary Millisecond Pulsar in the Galactic Plane

@article{Champion2008AnEB,
title={An Eccentric Binary Millisecond Pulsar in the Galactic Plane},
author={David J. Champion and Scott M. Ransom and Patrick Lazarus and F. Camilo and C. G. Bassa and Victoria M. Kaspi and David J. Nice and Paulo C. C. Freire and Ingrid H. Stairs and Joeri van Leeuwen and Ben W. Stappers and James M. Cordes and Jason W. T. Hessels and Duncan R. Lorimer and Zaven Arzoumanian and Donald Charles Backer and N. D. Ramesh Bhat and Shami Chatterjee and Ismael Cognard and Julia S. Deneva and Claude-Andr{\'e} Faucher-Gigu{\e}re and Bryan M. Gaensler and Jin-lin Han and Fredrick A. Jenet and Laura Kasian and Vladislav I. Kondratiev and Michael Kramer and Joseph Lazio and Maura Mclaughlin and Arun Venkataraman and Wouter H. T. Vlemmings},
journal={Science},
year={2008},
volume={320},
pages={1309 - 1312}
}`
Binary pulsar systems are superb probes of stellar and binary evolution and the physics of extreme environments. In a survey with the Arecibo telescope, we have found PSR J1903+0327, a radio pulsar with a rotational period of 2.15 milliseconds in a highly eccentric (e = 0.44) 95-day orbit around a solar mass (\batchmode \documentclass[fleqn,10pt,legalpaper]{article} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amsmath} \pagestyle{empty} \begin{document} $$\mathrm{M}_{{\odot}}$$ \end… Expand
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