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    Jaodand, Amruta D.; Deller, Adam T.; Gusinskaia, Nina; Hessels, Jason W. T.; Miller-Jones, James C. A.; Archibald, Anne M.; Bogdanov, Slavko; Bassa, Cees; Wijnands, Rudy; Patruno, Alessandro; Sanidas, Sotiris

    The Astrophysical journal, 12/2021, Letnik: 923, Številka: 1
    Journal Article

    Abstract 3FGL J1544.6−1125 is a candidate transitional millisecond pulsar (tMSP). Similar to the well-established tMSPs—PSR J1023+0038, IGR J18245−2452, and XSS J12270−4859—3FGL J1544.6−1125 shows γ -ray emission and discrete X-ray “low” and “high” modes during its low-luminosity accretion-disk state. Coordinated radio/X-ray observations of PSR J1023+0038 in its current low-luminosity accretion-disk state showed rapidly variable radio continuum emission—possibly originating from a compact, self-absorbed jet, the “propellering” of accretion material, and/or pulsar moding. 3FGL J1544.6−1125 is currently the only other (candidate) tMSP system in this state, and can be studied to see whether tMSPs are typically radio-loud compared to other neutron star binaries. In this work, we present a quasi-simultaneous Very Large Array and Swift radio/X-ray campaign on 3FGL J1544.6−1125. We detect 10 GHz radio emission varying in flux density from 47.7 ± 6.0 μ Jy down to ≲15 μ Jy (3 σ upper limit) at four epochs spanning three weeks. At the brightest epoch, the radio luminosity is L 5 GHz = (2.17 ± 0.17) × 10 27 erg s −1 for a quasi-simultaneous X-ray luminosity L 2–10 keV = (4.32 ± 0.23) × 10 33 erg s −1 (for an assumed distance of 3.8 kpc). These luminosities are close to those of PSR J1023+0038, and the results strengthen the case that 3FGL J1544.6−1125 is a tMSP showing similar phenomenology to PSR J1023+0038.