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The Galactic Center radio filament G359. 0-0. 2, often referred to as the ''Snake'', displays two notable kinks that cause its linear structure to deviate from running perpendicular to the Galactic plane. Using Murriyang, the 64 m Parkes radio telescope, we conducted a search for pulsars centered on the position of a previously identified compact radio and X-ray source in the major kink. We discovered a millisecond pulsar (MSP), PSR J1744-2946, with a period P = 8. 4 ms, a dispersion measure of 673. 7 0. 1 pc cm^-3 and Faraday rotation measure of 3011 3 rad m^-2. Its radio pulses are only moderately scattered due to multi-path propagation through the interstellar medium, with a scattering timescale of 0. 87 0. 08 ms at 2. 6 GHz. The pulsar is bound in a 4. 8 hr circular orbit around a M ₂ > 0. 05 M_ companion. Our discovery of the first MSP within 1^ of the Galactic Center hints at a large population of these objects detectable via high frequency surveys. The potential association with the Snake points toward pulsars as the energy source responsible for illuminating Galactic Center radio filaments.
Lower et al. (Sat,) studied this question.