A recycled pulsar is a neutron star spun up by accretion from a binary companion. Accreted angular momentum can reduce its spin period to milliseconds, while donor-envelope removal often leaves a white-dwarf companion.
A binary millisecond pulsar is a rapidly rotating recycled neutron star that remains in a binary, commonly with the white-dwarf remnant of its donor.
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