Multiwavelength observations of a new black-widow millisecond pulsar PSR J1544−2555

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Acknowledgement

The authors would like to thank Soheb Mandhai and Pengyue Sun for their help with conducting optical observations.

The MeerKAT telescope is operated by the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO), which is a facility of the National Research Foundation, an agency of the Department of Science and Innovation. We thank staff at SARAO for their help with observations and commissioning. TRAPUM observations used the FBFUSE and APSUSE computing clusters for data acquisition, storage, and analysis. These clusters were funded and installed by the Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie (MPIfR) and the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft. The National Radio Astronomy Observatory is a facility of the National Science Foundation operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc. The Parkes radio telescope is part of the Australia Telescope National Facility (https://ror.org/05qajvd42) which is funded by the Australian Government for operation as a National Facility managed by CSIRO. We acknowledge the Wiradjuri people as the traditional owners of the Observatory site. The Nançay Radio Observatory is operated by the Paris Observatory, associated with the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and Université d’Orléans. It is partially supported by the Region Centre Val de Loire in France.

The Fermi LAT Collaboration acknowledges generous ongoing support from a number of agencies and institutes that have supported both the development and the operation of the LAT as well as scientific data analysis. These include the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Department of Energy in the United States, the Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique / Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules in France, the Agenzia Spaziale Italiana and the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare in Italy, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in Japan, and the K. A. Wallenberg Foundation, the Swedish Research Council and the Swedish National Space Board in Sweden.

This work has made use of data from the European Space Agency (ESA) mission Gaia (https://www.cosmos.esa.int/gaia), processed by the Gaia Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC, https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/dpac/consortium). Funding for the DPAC has been provided by national institutions, in particular the institutions participating in the Gaia Multilateral Agreement.

TT is grateful to the National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand (NARIT) for awarding a student scholarship. RPB acknowledges support from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programe (grant agreement No. 715051; Spiders). SBD acknowledges the support of a Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) stipend (grant number: ST/X001229/1) to permit work as a postgraduate researcher. ECF was supported by NASA under award number 80GSFC24M0006. ULTRACAM and VSD are supported by STFC. Lastly, we would like to thank Lucas Guillemot for reviewing the manuscript on behalf of the Fermi-LAT Collaboration.

Data Availability

TRAPUM and ULTRACAM observations are available upon reasonable request to the corresponding author. Reduced and calibrated optical light curves are available in accompanying online material. The Fermi-LAT data are available from the Fermi Science Support Center (FSSC; http://fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov/ssc). Gamma-ray timing solutions are also available from the FSSC (https://fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov/ssc/data/access/lat/ephems/).

Supplemental Material

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