# Millisecond Pulsars in 47 Tucanae

## 1. Pulsar searching

The cluster 47 Tucanae (47 Tuc) was long known to contain 11 MSPs, with four of them in binary systems (Robinson et al. 1995). In 20 cm observations made since 1997 at Parkes, we have detected all the previously known pulsars and discovered nine new MSPs, 47 Tuc O–W, all of which are in binary systems. Of these, 47 Tuc R has the shortest orbital period for any radio pulsar (96 minutes). For details on the search, orbital parameters, pulse profiles, and luminosities, see Camilo et al. (2000).

## 2. Pulsar timing

The frequent detections of 14 pulsars allowed the determination of 12 new coherent timing solutions, and the confirmation of the two previously known. All pulsars lie in a circle of 1.5 arcmin about the centre of the cluster (see Fig. 1). Nine pulsars out of 14 have negative period derivatives (see Table 1), indicating that they are accelerating towards the Earth in the cluster’s gravitational potential, which can thus be probed in some detail. The number of pulsars with projected distance from the centre of the cluster smaller than $`R_{}`$ is proportional to $`R_{}`$. This is typical of an isothermal distribution. According to Phinney (1992) this indicates neutron stars are the dominating mass species in the core of 47 Tuc.

## References

Camilo, F., Lorimer, D. R., Freire, P., Lyne, A. G., Manchester, R. N. 2000, ApJ. In press; astro-ph/9911234

Robinson, C. R., Lyne, A. G., Manchester, A. G., Bailes, M., D’Amico, N., & Johnston, S. 1995, MNRAS, 274, 547

Phinney, E. S. 1992, Philos. Trans. Roy. Soc. London A, 341, 39