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Record W4410649139 · doi:10.1126/science.ado0769

A pulsar-helium star compact binary system formed by common envelope evolution

2025· article· en· W4410649139 on OpenAlexfundno aff
Z. L. Yang, J. L. Han, D. J. Zhou, W. C. Jing, Wen‐Cong Chen, Tie‐Gang Wang, Xiang‐Dong Li, Song Wang, Bo Wang, Hongwei Ge, L. H. Li, Yong Shao, Jifeng Liu, W. Q. Su, L. G. Hou, W. J. Huang, Jinchen Jiang, Peng Jiang, Jinghai Sun, Bojun Wang, Chenwei Wang, H. G. Wang, Jingbo Wang, Na Wang, Piao Wang, Shuangqiang Wang, Heng Xu, Jin-Long Xu, Renxin Xu, W. M. Yan, Yi Yan, X. P. You, Daqi Yu, Z. S. Yuan, C. F. Zhang

Bibliographic record

VenueScience · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPhysics and Astronomy
TopicStellar, planetary, and galactic studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersLos Alamos National LaboratoryNational Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of SciencesNational Key Research and Development Program of ChinaSmithsonian Astrophysical ObservatoryMax-Planck-Institut für AstronomieEötvös Loránd TudományegyetemChinese Academy of SciencesPlanetary Science DivisionScience Mission DirectorateNational Natural Science Foundation of ChinaSpace Telescope Science InstituteNational Central UniversityGordon and Betty Moore FoundationQueen's UniversityJohns Hopkins UniversityQueen's University BelfastNational Aeronautics and Space AdministrationDurham UniversitySmithsonian InstitutionNational Science Foundation
KeywordsPhysicsCommon envelopePulsarAstrophysicsAstronomyOrbital periodBinary starOrbit (dynamics)X-ray pulsarBinary systemBinary pulsarBinary numberStar (game theory)HeliumEnvelope (radar)Roche lobeCompact starX-ray binaryMillisecond pulsarNeutron starWhite dwarfStars

Abstract

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A stellar common envelope occurs in a binary system when the atmosphere of an evolving star expands to encompass an orbiting companion object. Such systems are predicted to evolve rapidly, ejecting the stellar envelope and leaving the companion in a tighter orbit around a stripped star. We used radio timing to identify a pulsar, PSR J1928+1815, with a spin period of 10.55 ms in a compact binary system with an orbital period of 3.60 hours. The companion star has 1.0 to 1.6 solar masses, eclipses the pulsar for about 17% of the orbit, and is undetected at other wavelengths, so it is most likely a stripped helium star. We interpret this system as having recently undergone a common envelope phase, producing a compact binary.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.001
Threshold uncertainty score0.003

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.009
GPT teacher head0.246
Teacher spread0.237 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Citations15
Published2025
Admission routes1
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