Paper:	Evolution of Black Widow Pulsars
Volume:	328, Binary Radio Pulsars
Page:	429
Authors:	King, A.R.; Beer, M.E.
Abstract:	We consider the evolution of black widow pulsars (BWPs). The large majority of these are members of globular clusters. For minimum companion masses < 0.1 MSolar, adiabatic evolution and consequent mass loss under gravitational radiation appear to provide a coherent explanation of all observable properties. We suggest that the group of BWPs with minimum companion masses ≥ 0.1 MSolar are systems relaxing to equilibrium after a relatively recent capture event. We point out that all binary millisecond pulsars (MSPs) with orbital periods P ≤ 10 hr are BWPs (our line of sight allows us to see the eclipses in 10 out of 16 cases). This implies that recycled MSPs emit either in a wide fan beam or a pencil beam close to the spin plane. Simple evolutionary ideas favour a fan beam.

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