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Evidence of a disrupted pulsar binary system

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THIS letter demonstrates that the pulsars PSR1952 + 29 and PSR1929 + 10 may have originated in a binary system which was disrupted by a supernova explosion less than a million years ago. If further confirmed by improved observations, this result provides an evolutionary link between the separate phenomena of X-ray binary systems and radio pulsars.

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WRIGHT, G. Evidence of a disrupted pulsar binary system. Nature 277, 363–364 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1038/277363a0

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