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Swinging between rotation and accretion power in a mil-
lisecond binary pulsar
A. Papitto1
, C. Ferrigno2
, E. Bozzo2
, N. Rea1
, L. Pavan2
, S. Campana3
, P. Romano4
, L. Burderi5
,
T. Di Salvo6
, A. Riggio5
, D. F. Torres1,7
, M. Falanga8
, J. W. T. Hessels9,10
, M. Burgay11
, J. M. Sarkissian12
,
M. H. Wieringa13
, M. D. Filipovi´c14
, G. F. Wong14
1
Institute of Space Sciences (ICE; IEEC-CSIC), Campus UAB, Faculty of Science, Torre C5,
parell, 2a planta, 08193 Barcelona, Spain
2
ISDC Data Center for Astrophysics, Universit´e de Gen`eve, chemin d ´Ecogia, 16, 1290 Versoix,
Switzerland
3
INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Via Bianchi 46, I-23807, Merate (LC), Italy
4
INAF-Istituto di Astrosica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica, Via U. La Malfa 153, I-90146 Palermo,
Italy
5
Dipartimento di Fisica, Universit´a di Cagliari, SP Monserrato-Sestu, Km 0.7, 09042 Monserrato,
Italy
6
Dipartimento di Fisica, Universit´a di Palermo, via Archirafi 36, 90123 Palermo, Italy
7
Instituci´o Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avanc¸ats (ICREA), 08010 Barcelona, Spain
8
International Space Science Institute, Hallerstrasse 6, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland
9
ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, Postbus 2, 7990 AA, Dwingeloo, The
Netherlands
10
Astronomical Institute “Anton Pannekoek”, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098
XH Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1
arXiv:1305.3884v1[astro-ph.HE]16May2013
11
INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari, loc. Poggio dei Pini, strada 54, I-09012 Capoterra,
Italy
12
CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science, P.O. Box 76, Epping 1710, Australia
13
CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science, Locked Bag 194, Narrabri NSW 2390, Australia
14
University of Western Sydney, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith South DC, NSW 1797, Australia
Radio pulsars are neutron stars that emit radiation modulated and powered by the rotation
of their magnetic field, and which consequently decelerate1
. The very fast millisecond spin
periods measured in old radio pulsars2
are thought to be the outcome of an earlier X-ray
bright phase, during which the neutron star accretes matter and angular momentum from
a low mass companion star in a binary system3,4
. This evolutionary scenario has been sup-
ported by the detection of X-ray millisecond pulsations from several accreting neutron stars
in the past fifteen years5
, as well as by the indirect evidence for the presence of a disk in
the past around a millisecond radio pulsar now powered by rotation6
. However, a transition
between a rotation-powered and an accretion-powered state was never observed. Here we
present the detection of millisecond X-ray pulsations from an accreting neutron star which
showed multiple accretion event in the past few years, and was already known as a radio
millisecond pulsar. The coherent signal that modulates the X-ray radiation is related to mass
accretion, as demonstrated by its magnitude, variability and energy distribution, and by the
detection of the signal during a thermonuclear explosion that occurred onto the neutron star
surface. This source proves that in the context of the evolutionary link between millisecond
pulsars fuelled either by rotation or by mass accretion, these states alternate over a time scale
2
of a few years in a cyclic fashion.
The extremely short spin periods shown by the ∼ 300 known rotation-powered radio mil-
lisecond pulsars of the Galaxy is explained in terms of a previous evolutionary phase, in which
the neutron star increases its rotation rate through the accretion of the matter transferred by a low
mass ( <
∼ 1–2M ) companion star through a disc3,4
. During such an accretion phase the system
is X-ray bright, and the presence of plasma close to the neutron star quenches the radio pulses.
When the mass transfer from the companion star decreases, the system cannot keep the viscous
disc permanently in a high accretion state7
, and enhanced mass accretion with a conspicuous X-
ray emission (LX ≈ 1036
erg s−1
) proceeds only during a few month-long periods called out-
bursts. Outside outbursts these sources spend long periods of time (∼ years) in an X-ray quiescent
state (LX
<
∼ 1033
erg s−1
). It was proposed that when the pressure of the transferred matter de-
creases, the pulsar wind may reactivate a rotation-powered, possibly pulsed activity8,9
. Rotation
and accretion-powered pulsar states would then alternate on the time scales set of the observed
cycles between X-ray outbursts and quiescence. On the other hand, when the mass transfer from
the companion star ceases altogether, the cycle between X-ray outbursts and quiescence ends, and
the system then shines permanently as a recycled radio millisecond pulsar.
The detection of millisecond X-ray pulsations from accreting neutron stars orbiting a low
mass star5,10
demonstrated that the accretion of mass in an X-ray binary is able to spin-up a neu-
tron star to a millisecond spin period. A modulation of the X-ray emission is produced when
the accreting material lost by the companion star is pulled-up from the accretion disk by the neu-
3
tron star magnetic field, and channelled toward the magnetic poles before being accreted onto the
surface. A dozen of accreting millisecond X-ray pulsars has been discovered by now, transients
alternating between X-ray outbursts and quiescence. The amount of optical light reprocessed by
the companion star9
, as well as the spin and orbital evolution of these neutron stars11–14
, indirectly
suggest the re-ignition of the radio pulsar during the X-ray quiescence, but deep searches for radio
pulsations were unfruitful, so far15
.
The X-ray transient IGR J18245–2452 was first detected by INTEGRAL on 2013, March
28. It is located in the globular cluster M28, at a distance16
of 5.5 kpc. The X-ray luminosity of a
few×1036
erg s−1
(0.3-10 keV), and the detection by the X-ray Telescope on-board Swift of a burst
originated by a thermonuclear explosion at the surface of the compact object17
, firmly classified
this source as an accreting neutron star in an X-ray binary. Seven days after the discovery of IGR
J18245–2452, we detected a coherent modulation at a period of 3.93185 ms during an XMM-
Newton Target of Opportunity observation (see Fig. 1 for the light curve). The signal has an
almost sinusoidal profile with a peak-to-peak amplitude of ∼ 15 per cent (see the inset of Fig. 2),
translating into a detection with a significance of more than 80σ. We observed delays of the pulse
arrival times produced by the circular orbit of the neutron star around a companion star of a mass
larger than 0.17 M , with an orbital period of 11.0 hours. The spin and orbital parameters of the
source were further improved by making use of a second XMM-Newton observation (see Fig. 2),
yielding the ephemerides given in Table 1.
By looking at the list of the radio rotation powered pulsars detected18
in M28, we found that
4
PSR J1824–2452I has identical ephemerides to those of IGR J18245–2452. Given the accuracy of
the measured parameters we concluded that they are the same source. However, the X-ray pulsa-
tions we have observed from IGR J18245–2452 are unambiguously powered by mass accretion.
In particular, the pulse amplitude varies in strong correlation with the X-ray flux, implying that
pulsations come from a source emitting ≈ 1036
erg s−1
in X-rays; this value is larger by more than
two orders of magnitudes than the luminosity shown by the X-ray counterparts of rotation-powered
radio millisecond pulsars19
, while it nicely agrees with the X-ray output of accreting millisecond
pulsars. The spectrum of the X-ray emission of the source is typical of accreting millisecond pul-
sars, and the broad emission line observed at an energy compatible with the iron K-α transition
(6.4-6.97 keV) is most easily interpreted in terms of reflection of hard X-rays by the truncated
accretion disk20
. Furthermore, the pulse is also detected by Swift-XRT during the decay of a ther-
monuclear burst, following a runaway nuclear burning of light nuclei accreted onto the neutron
star surface. Such bursts are unambiguous indicators that mass accretion is taking place, and the
periodic oscillations observed in some of them trace the spin of the accreting neutron star21
.
We derived an accurate position for IGR J18245–2452 using a Chandra image taken on
2013, April 29, while the source was still in outburst (see Fig. 3). Its position is compatible
with a variable radio source that we have detected with the Australia Compact Telescope Array
on 2013, April 5 at frequencies above 5.5 GHz, with spectral properties typical of an accreting
millisecond pulsar in outburst22
. The radio millisecond pulsar was not detected by observations
performed simultaneously to the 2013 Chandra observation and at lower radio frequencies, by the
64-m Parkes radio telescope, and a few days later by the Westerbork Syntheis Radio Telescope,
5
compatible with the neutron star being in an accretion phase. Furthermore, analysis of archival
Chandra observations indicated that IGR J18245–2452 underwent other accretion events in the
past ten years.
On the other hand, the pulsed radio emission detected23
from PSR J1824–2452I in 2006 with
the Green Bank Telescope rules out the possibility that this source was accreting at that time, as the
presence of accreting material quenches a pulsed radio signal. The radio observations in 2006 in-
dicated that PSR J1824–2452I was surrounded by conspicuous material, causing the irregular dis-
appearing of the radio signal from this object and leading to a poorly determined source position19
.
During 2006, the X-ray luminosity of IGR J18245–2452 observed by Chandra was ≈ 1032
erg
s−1
, a level typical of X-ray counterparts of rotation powered, radio millisecond pulsars19
and of
accreting millisecond pulsars during X-ray quiescence24
.
This system provides the conclusive evidence of the evolutionary link between neutron stars
in low mass X-ray binaries and millisecond radio pulsars, and establish the existence of an inter-
mediate evolutionary phase during which rotation and accretion powered states alternate over a
time scale of a few years. The discovery of accreting millisecond pulsars5
proved that accretion
can spin-up a neutron star to a period of few millisecond. The past presence of a disk (though,
not in an accreting phase) around a millisecond pulsar now powered by rotation6
, gave an indirect
indication of a transition from an accretion to a rotation powered state, in the expected evolutionary
direction. IGR J18245–2452 is the first system to show at different times unambiguous tracers of
rotation and accretion powered activity, and to show transitions in both directions. These swings
6
take place on a time scale much shorter than the Gyr-long evolution of these binary systems25
. The
companion star of IGR J18245–2452 has a mass compatible with a main sequence star. It is indeed
most likely that this intermediate evolutionary phase is observed in systems that have not reached
the endpoint of the accretion phase yet6,26
.
The X-ray luminosity of IGR J18245–2452 during quiescence (LX ≈ 1032
erg s−1
) implies
that rate of mass in-fall was not larger than ˙M <
∼ 10−14
M yr−1
, during such state. The pres-
ence of radio millisecond pulsation during the X-ray quiescent state of IGR J18245–2452 testifies
that the pressure exerted by the mass transferred by the companion star could not prevent the pul-
sar magnetosphere from pushing the plasma beyond the light cylinder of the pulsar (located at a
distance of ≈200 km). A pulsar magnetic field of the order of 108
–109
G is able to satisfy this con-
dition, and to explain the quiescent X-ray luminosity in terms of the pulsar rotational power (for a
typical conversion efficiency of about 1–10 per cent). In this radio-active stage, the mass that the
companion star keeps transferring towards the neutron star is ejected by the pressure of the pulsar
wind27
, determining the observed, irregular disappearance of the radio signal. A slight increase of
the mass transfer rate may subsequently push the magnetosphere back within the light cylinder28
.
After a disk had a sufficient time to build up, another X-ray outburst takes place, as in the case
of IGR J18245–2452 during the observations reported here. The discovery of IGR J18245–2452,
alternating between rotation and accretion-powered emission, represents the most stringent probe
of the recycling scenario, and the existence of an unstable intermediate evolutionary phase in the
evolution of low mass X-ray binaries.
7
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Acknowledgements This paper is based on ToO observations made by XMM-Newton, Chandra X-ray
Observatory, Swift, INTEGRAL, ATCA, Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope and Parkes antenna. We
thank the respective directors and operation teams for the support. Work done in the framework of the
grants AYA2012-39303, SGR2009-811, and iLINK2011-0303. We also acknowledge support from the
following funding agencies: CEA/Irfu, IN2P3/CNRS and CNES (France); INAF (Italy). AR acknowledges
Sardinia Regional Government for financial support (P.O.R. Sardegna F.S.E. Operational Programme of the
Autonomous Region of Sardinia, ESF 2007-13, Axis IV Human resources objective I.3, line of activity I.3.1.
D. F. T was additionally supported by a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Award of the Alexander von Humboldt
Foundation. L. P thanks the Soci´et´e Acad´emique de Gen`eve and the Swiss Society for Astrophysics and
Astronomy for travel grants supporting the on-going collaboration between the ISDC and the ATCA team.
Finally, we acknowledge the use of data supplied by the UK Swift Science Data Centre at the University of
Leicester.
Author Contributions A. P., C. F. and E. B. collected and analysed XMM-Newton data. A. P. and C. F.
detected the pulsar in XMM-Newton data and derived its orbital solution. A. P. discovered the equivalence
of its parameters with a radio pulsar, the thermonuclear burst and the burst oscillations. A. P. and N. R.
wrote the paper. N. R. analysed Chandra data, detecting the X-ray quiescent counterpart of the source
and past accretion events. L. P., M. H. W., M. D. F. and G. F. W. analysed ATCA data. E. B., S. C. and
P. R. analysed Swift data. E. B. and C. F. analysed INTEGRAL data. J. W. T. H. collected and analysed a
Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope pointing. M. B. and J. M. S. performed and analysed a 64-m Parkes
11
radio telescope observation. A. R. provided valuable software tools. All the authors contributed to the
interpretation.
Competing Interests The authors declare that they have no competing financial interests.
Correspondence Correspondence and requests for materials should be addressed to A. Papitto (email:
papitto@ice.csic.es).
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Table 1: Spin and orbital parameters of IGR J18245–2452 and PSR J1824–2452I.
Parameter IGR J18245–2452 PSR J1824–2452I
Right Ascension (J2000) 18h
24m
32.53(4)s
Declination (J2000) −24◦
52 08.6(6)
Reference epoch (MJD) 56386.0
Spin period (ms) 3.931852641(2) 3.93185(1)
Spin period derivative < 2 × 10−17
RMS of pulse time delays (ms) 0.1
Orbital period (hr) 11.025781(2) 11.0258(2)
Projected semi-major axis (lt-s) 0.76591(1) 0.7658(1)
Epoch of zero mean anomaly (MJD) 56395.216889(5)
Eccentricity ≤ 1 × 10−4
Pulsar mass function (M ) 2.2831(1) × 10−3
2.282(1) × 10−3
Minimum companion mass (M ) 0.174(3) 0.17(1)
Median companion mass (M ) 0.204(3) 0.20(1)
Celestial coordinates of IGR J18245–2452 are derived from a Chandra X-ray observation performed using the High
Resolution Camera (HRC-S) on 2013, April 29 (see Fig. 3). The spin and orbital parameters of IGR J18245–2452 were
derived by modelling the pulse arrival time delays of the fundamental frequency component, as observed in the 0.5–10
keV energy band by the EPIC pn camera on-board XMM-Newton, during two observations which started on 2013,
April 3 and April 13. Pulse profiles were modelled with two harmonic components. The peak-to-peak amplitude of the
fundamental varied in correlation with the observed count rate (Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient of ρ = 0.79 for
45 points, which has a probability of less than 10−10
if the variables are uncorrelated) between 18 per cent and the non
detection. When detected, the second harmonic has an amplitude between 2 and 3 per cent. The minimum and median
companion mass were evaluated for a 1.35 M mass of the neutron star, and inclination of the system of 90◦
and 60◦
,
respectively. Available parameters of PSR J1824–2452I were taken from the ATNF pulsar Catalogue18, considering
errors on the last significant digit there quoted. The numbers in parentheses given here represent the uncertainties on
the respective parameter evaluated at a 1σ confidence level. Upper limits are quoted at a 3σ confidence level. See
supplementary material for details.
13
0
100
200
300
0 5 10 15 20 25
0.5-10keVcountrate(s-1)
Time (ks; arbitrary offset)
Figure 1: Light curve observed in the 0.5–10 keV energy band by the EPIC pn camera on-board XMM-Newton
during an observation started on 2013, April 4. A bin time of 5 s was used. The possibility of contamination by soft
proton flares was ruled out by extracting a light curve from a background region observed by EPIC MOS cameras far
from the source. No discrete features are observed in the Fourier power spectrum of the EPIC pn time series, a part
from the 254.3 Hz pulsar signal and its second harmonic. The power spectral density is described by a power-law
noise spectrum, P(f) ∝ f−γ
, with γ = 1.292(4), down to a frequency of 8 × 10−3
Hz, above a white noise with an
average value of 1.9900(1) Hz−1
. No frequency break could be observed down to a frequency of a few ×10−5
Hz.
14
-0.8
-0.4
0
0.4
0.8
0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1
-1
0
1
Pulsearrivaltimedelays(s)
Orbital phase Residuals(ms)
0 0.5 1 1.5 2
0.911.1
Pulse phase
Figure 2: Spin and orbit of IGR J18245–2452. Pulse arrival time delays caused by the orbital motion of the neutron
star, and residuals (right axis, diamonds) with respect to best fit timing solution (solid line). Each point was estimated
by modelling the pulse profile observed in 2 ks long intervals, with two harmonic components. The inset shows the
average pulse profile accumulated over the two XMM-Newton observations (dots), and the best fit decomposition with
two harmonics. Two cycles are plotted for clarity.
15
Figure 3: Chandra HRC–S images of the core of M28 taken on 2013, April 29, during the decay of the X-ray outburst
of IGR J18245–2452 (left), and on 2006, May 27, when it was in X-ray quiescence (right). The two observations had
an exposure of 53 and 41 ks, respectively, and the 0.5–10 keV observed flux from IGR J18245–2452 was of 4.1×10−13
and 4.8 × 10−14
erg cm−2
s−1
. The plotted error circles reperesent the 90 per cent confidence level of the Chandra,
XMM-Newton and ATCA position of IGR J18245–2452, and are plotted as a green, white and red circles, respectively.16

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  • 1. Swinging between rotation and accretion power in a mil- lisecond binary pulsar A. Papitto1 , C. Ferrigno2 , E. Bozzo2 , N. Rea1 , L. Pavan2 , S. Campana3 , P. Romano4 , L. Burderi5 , T. Di Salvo6 , A. Riggio5 , D. F. Torres1,7 , M. Falanga8 , J. W. T. Hessels9,10 , M. Burgay11 , J. M. Sarkissian12 , M. H. Wieringa13 , M. D. Filipovi´c14 , G. F. Wong14 1 Institute of Space Sciences (ICE; IEEC-CSIC), Campus UAB, Faculty of Science, Torre C5, parell, 2a planta, 08193 Barcelona, Spain 2 ISDC Data Center for Astrophysics, Universit´e de Gen`eve, chemin d ´Ecogia, 16, 1290 Versoix, Switzerland 3 INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Via Bianchi 46, I-23807, Merate (LC), Italy 4 INAF-Istituto di Astrosica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica, Via U. La Malfa 153, I-90146 Palermo, Italy 5 Dipartimento di Fisica, Universit´a di Cagliari, SP Monserrato-Sestu, Km 0.7, 09042 Monserrato, Italy 6 Dipartimento di Fisica, Universit´a di Palermo, via Archirafi 36, 90123 Palermo, Italy 7 Instituci´o Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avanc¸ats (ICREA), 08010 Barcelona, Spain 8 International Space Science Institute, Hallerstrasse 6, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland 9 ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, Postbus 2, 7990 AA, Dwingeloo, The Netherlands 10 Astronomical Institute “Anton Pannekoek”, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098 XH Amsterdam, The Netherlands 1 arXiv:1305.3884v1[astro-ph.HE]16May2013
  • 2. 11 INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari, loc. Poggio dei Pini, strada 54, I-09012 Capoterra, Italy 12 CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science, P.O. Box 76, Epping 1710, Australia 13 CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science, Locked Bag 194, Narrabri NSW 2390, Australia 14 University of Western Sydney, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith South DC, NSW 1797, Australia Radio pulsars are neutron stars that emit radiation modulated and powered by the rotation of their magnetic field, and which consequently decelerate1 . The very fast millisecond spin periods measured in old radio pulsars2 are thought to be the outcome of an earlier X-ray bright phase, during which the neutron star accretes matter and angular momentum from a low mass companion star in a binary system3,4 . This evolutionary scenario has been sup- ported by the detection of X-ray millisecond pulsations from several accreting neutron stars in the past fifteen years5 , as well as by the indirect evidence for the presence of a disk in the past around a millisecond radio pulsar now powered by rotation6 . However, a transition between a rotation-powered and an accretion-powered state was never observed. Here we present the detection of millisecond X-ray pulsations from an accreting neutron star which showed multiple accretion event in the past few years, and was already known as a radio millisecond pulsar. The coherent signal that modulates the X-ray radiation is related to mass accretion, as demonstrated by its magnitude, variability and energy distribution, and by the detection of the signal during a thermonuclear explosion that occurred onto the neutron star surface. This source proves that in the context of the evolutionary link between millisecond pulsars fuelled either by rotation or by mass accretion, these states alternate over a time scale 2
  • 3. of a few years in a cyclic fashion. The extremely short spin periods shown by the ∼ 300 known rotation-powered radio mil- lisecond pulsars of the Galaxy is explained in terms of a previous evolutionary phase, in which the neutron star increases its rotation rate through the accretion of the matter transferred by a low mass ( < ∼ 1–2M ) companion star through a disc3,4 . During such an accretion phase the system is X-ray bright, and the presence of plasma close to the neutron star quenches the radio pulses. When the mass transfer from the companion star decreases, the system cannot keep the viscous disc permanently in a high accretion state7 , and enhanced mass accretion with a conspicuous X- ray emission (LX ≈ 1036 erg s−1 ) proceeds only during a few month-long periods called out- bursts. Outside outbursts these sources spend long periods of time (∼ years) in an X-ray quiescent state (LX < ∼ 1033 erg s−1 ). It was proposed that when the pressure of the transferred matter de- creases, the pulsar wind may reactivate a rotation-powered, possibly pulsed activity8,9 . Rotation and accretion-powered pulsar states would then alternate on the time scales set of the observed cycles between X-ray outbursts and quiescence. On the other hand, when the mass transfer from the companion star ceases altogether, the cycle between X-ray outbursts and quiescence ends, and the system then shines permanently as a recycled radio millisecond pulsar. The detection of millisecond X-ray pulsations from accreting neutron stars orbiting a low mass star5,10 demonstrated that the accretion of mass in an X-ray binary is able to spin-up a neu- tron star to a millisecond spin period. A modulation of the X-ray emission is produced when the accreting material lost by the companion star is pulled-up from the accretion disk by the neu- 3
  • 4. tron star magnetic field, and channelled toward the magnetic poles before being accreted onto the surface. A dozen of accreting millisecond X-ray pulsars has been discovered by now, transients alternating between X-ray outbursts and quiescence. The amount of optical light reprocessed by the companion star9 , as well as the spin and orbital evolution of these neutron stars11–14 , indirectly suggest the re-ignition of the radio pulsar during the X-ray quiescence, but deep searches for radio pulsations were unfruitful, so far15 . The X-ray transient IGR J18245–2452 was first detected by INTEGRAL on 2013, March 28. It is located in the globular cluster M28, at a distance16 of 5.5 kpc. The X-ray luminosity of a few×1036 erg s−1 (0.3-10 keV), and the detection by the X-ray Telescope on-board Swift of a burst originated by a thermonuclear explosion at the surface of the compact object17 , firmly classified this source as an accreting neutron star in an X-ray binary. Seven days after the discovery of IGR J18245–2452, we detected a coherent modulation at a period of 3.93185 ms during an XMM- Newton Target of Opportunity observation (see Fig. 1 for the light curve). The signal has an almost sinusoidal profile with a peak-to-peak amplitude of ∼ 15 per cent (see the inset of Fig. 2), translating into a detection with a significance of more than 80σ. We observed delays of the pulse arrival times produced by the circular orbit of the neutron star around a companion star of a mass larger than 0.17 M , with an orbital period of 11.0 hours. The spin and orbital parameters of the source were further improved by making use of a second XMM-Newton observation (see Fig. 2), yielding the ephemerides given in Table 1. By looking at the list of the radio rotation powered pulsars detected18 in M28, we found that 4
  • 5. PSR J1824–2452I has identical ephemerides to those of IGR J18245–2452. Given the accuracy of the measured parameters we concluded that they are the same source. However, the X-ray pulsa- tions we have observed from IGR J18245–2452 are unambiguously powered by mass accretion. In particular, the pulse amplitude varies in strong correlation with the X-ray flux, implying that pulsations come from a source emitting ≈ 1036 erg s−1 in X-rays; this value is larger by more than two orders of magnitudes than the luminosity shown by the X-ray counterparts of rotation-powered radio millisecond pulsars19 , while it nicely agrees with the X-ray output of accreting millisecond pulsars. The spectrum of the X-ray emission of the source is typical of accreting millisecond pul- sars, and the broad emission line observed at an energy compatible with the iron K-α transition (6.4-6.97 keV) is most easily interpreted in terms of reflection of hard X-rays by the truncated accretion disk20 . Furthermore, the pulse is also detected by Swift-XRT during the decay of a ther- monuclear burst, following a runaway nuclear burning of light nuclei accreted onto the neutron star surface. Such bursts are unambiguous indicators that mass accretion is taking place, and the periodic oscillations observed in some of them trace the spin of the accreting neutron star21 . We derived an accurate position for IGR J18245–2452 using a Chandra image taken on 2013, April 29, while the source was still in outburst (see Fig. 3). Its position is compatible with a variable radio source that we have detected with the Australia Compact Telescope Array on 2013, April 5 at frequencies above 5.5 GHz, with spectral properties typical of an accreting millisecond pulsar in outburst22 . The radio millisecond pulsar was not detected by observations performed simultaneously to the 2013 Chandra observation and at lower radio frequencies, by the 64-m Parkes radio telescope, and a few days later by the Westerbork Syntheis Radio Telescope, 5
  • 6. compatible with the neutron star being in an accretion phase. Furthermore, analysis of archival Chandra observations indicated that IGR J18245–2452 underwent other accretion events in the past ten years. On the other hand, the pulsed radio emission detected23 from PSR J1824–2452I in 2006 with the Green Bank Telescope rules out the possibility that this source was accreting at that time, as the presence of accreting material quenches a pulsed radio signal. The radio observations in 2006 in- dicated that PSR J1824–2452I was surrounded by conspicuous material, causing the irregular dis- appearing of the radio signal from this object and leading to a poorly determined source position19 . During 2006, the X-ray luminosity of IGR J18245–2452 observed by Chandra was ≈ 1032 erg s−1 , a level typical of X-ray counterparts of rotation powered, radio millisecond pulsars19 and of accreting millisecond pulsars during X-ray quiescence24 . This system provides the conclusive evidence of the evolutionary link between neutron stars in low mass X-ray binaries and millisecond radio pulsars, and establish the existence of an inter- mediate evolutionary phase during which rotation and accretion powered states alternate over a time scale of a few years. The discovery of accreting millisecond pulsars5 proved that accretion can spin-up a neutron star to a period of few millisecond. The past presence of a disk (though, not in an accreting phase) around a millisecond pulsar now powered by rotation6 , gave an indirect indication of a transition from an accretion to a rotation powered state, in the expected evolutionary direction. IGR J18245–2452 is the first system to show at different times unambiguous tracers of rotation and accretion powered activity, and to show transitions in both directions. These swings 6
  • 7. take place on a time scale much shorter than the Gyr-long evolution of these binary systems25 . The companion star of IGR J18245–2452 has a mass compatible with a main sequence star. It is indeed most likely that this intermediate evolutionary phase is observed in systems that have not reached the endpoint of the accretion phase yet6,26 . The X-ray luminosity of IGR J18245–2452 during quiescence (LX ≈ 1032 erg s−1 ) implies that rate of mass in-fall was not larger than ˙M < ∼ 10−14 M yr−1 , during such state. The pres- ence of radio millisecond pulsation during the X-ray quiescent state of IGR J18245–2452 testifies that the pressure exerted by the mass transferred by the companion star could not prevent the pul- sar magnetosphere from pushing the plasma beyond the light cylinder of the pulsar (located at a distance of ≈200 km). A pulsar magnetic field of the order of 108 –109 G is able to satisfy this con- dition, and to explain the quiescent X-ray luminosity in terms of the pulsar rotational power (for a typical conversion efficiency of about 1–10 per cent). In this radio-active stage, the mass that the companion star keeps transferring towards the neutron star is ejected by the pressure of the pulsar wind27 , determining the observed, irregular disappearance of the radio signal. A slight increase of the mass transfer rate may subsequently push the magnetosphere back within the light cylinder28 . After a disk had a sufficient time to build up, another X-ray outburst takes place, as in the case of IGR J18245–2452 during the observations reported here. The discovery of IGR J18245–2452, alternating between rotation and accretion-powered emission, represents the most stringent probe of the recycling scenario, and the existence of an unstable intermediate evolutionary phase in the evolution of low mass X-ray binaries. 7
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  • 12. radio telescope observation. A. R. provided valuable software tools. All the authors contributed to the interpretation. Competing Interests The authors declare that they have no competing financial interests. Correspondence Correspondence and requests for materials should be addressed to A. Papitto (email: papitto@ice.csic.es). 12
  • 13. Table 1: Spin and orbital parameters of IGR J18245–2452 and PSR J1824–2452I. Parameter IGR J18245–2452 PSR J1824–2452I Right Ascension (J2000) 18h 24m 32.53(4)s Declination (J2000) −24◦ 52 08.6(6) Reference epoch (MJD) 56386.0 Spin period (ms) 3.931852641(2) 3.93185(1) Spin period derivative < 2 × 10−17 RMS of pulse time delays (ms) 0.1 Orbital period (hr) 11.025781(2) 11.0258(2) Projected semi-major axis (lt-s) 0.76591(1) 0.7658(1) Epoch of zero mean anomaly (MJD) 56395.216889(5) Eccentricity ≤ 1 × 10−4 Pulsar mass function (M ) 2.2831(1) × 10−3 2.282(1) × 10−3 Minimum companion mass (M ) 0.174(3) 0.17(1) Median companion mass (M ) 0.204(3) 0.20(1) Celestial coordinates of IGR J18245–2452 are derived from a Chandra X-ray observation performed using the High Resolution Camera (HRC-S) on 2013, April 29 (see Fig. 3). The spin and orbital parameters of IGR J18245–2452 were derived by modelling the pulse arrival time delays of the fundamental frequency component, as observed in the 0.5–10 keV energy band by the EPIC pn camera on-board XMM-Newton, during two observations which started on 2013, April 3 and April 13. Pulse profiles were modelled with two harmonic components. The peak-to-peak amplitude of the fundamental varied in correlation with the observed count rate (Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient of ρ = 0.79 for 45 points, which has a probability of less than 10−10 if the variables are uncorrelated) between 18 per cent and the non detection. When detected, the second harmonic has an amplitude between 2 and 3 per cent. The minimum and median companion mass were evaluated for a 1.35 M mass of the neutron star, and inclination of the system of 90◦ and 60◦ , respectively. Available parameters of PSR J1824–2452I were taken from the ATNF pulsar Catalogue18, considering errors on the last significant digit there quoted. The numbers in parentheses given here represent the uncertainties on the respective parameter evaluated at a 1σ confidence level. Upper limits are quoted at a 3σ confidence level. See supplementary material for details. 13
  • 14. 0 100 200 300 0 5 10 15 20 25 0.5-10keVcountrate(s-1) Time (ks; arbitrary offset) Figure 1: Light curve observed in the 0.5–10 keV energy band by the EPIC pn camera on-board XMM-Newton during an observation started on 2013, April 4. A bin time of 5 s was used. The possibility of contamination by soft proton flares was ruled out by extracting a light curve from a background region observed by EPIC MOS cameras far from the source. No discrete features are observed in the Fourier power spectrum of the EPIC pn time series, a part from the 254.3 Hz pulsar signal and its second harmonic. The power spectral density is described by a power-law noise spectrum, P(f) ∝ f−γ , with γ = 1.292(4), down to a frequency of 8 × 10−3 Hz, above a white noise with an average value of 1.9900(1) Hz−1 . No frequency break could be observed down to a frequency of a few ×10−5 Hz. 14
  • 15. -0.8 -0.4 0 0.4 0.8 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 -1 0 1 Pulsearrivaltimedelays(s) Orbital phase Residuals(ms) 0 0.5 1 1.5 2 0.911.1 Pulse phase Figure 2: Spin and orbit of IGR J18245–2452. Pulse arrival time delays caused by the orbital motion of the neutron star, and residuals (right axis, diamonds) with respect to best fit timing solution (solid line). Each point was estimated by modelling the pulse profile observed in 2 ks long intervals, with two harmonic components. The inset shows the average pulse profile accumulated over the two XMM-Newton observations (dots), and the best fit decomposition with two harmonics. Two cycles are plotted for clarity. 15
  • 16. Figure 3: Chandra HRC–S images of the core of M28 taken on 2013, April 29, during the decay of the X-ray outburst of IGR J18245–2452 (left), and on 2006, May 27, when it was in X-ray quiescence (right). The two observations had an exposure of 53 and 41 ks, respectively, and the 0.5–10 keV observed flux from IGR J18245–2452 was of 4.1×10−13 and 4.8 × 10−14 erg cm−2 s−1 . The plotted error circles reperesent the 90 per cent confidence level of the Chandra, XMM-Newton and ATCA position of IGR J18245–2452, and are plotted as a green, white and red circles, respectively.16