COBIPLANE: Discovering New Spider Pulsar Candidates

This paper presents the discovery of five new candidate 'spider' binary millisecond pulsars, identified through an optical photometric survey (COBIPLANE) targeting gamma-ray sources. The survey's focus on low Galactic latitudes is significant, as it probes regions closer to the Galactic plane than previous surveys, potentially uncovering a larger population of these systems. The identification of optical flux modulation at specific orbital periods, along with the observed photometric temperatures and X-ray properties, provides strong evidence for the 'spider' classification, contributing to our understanding of these fascinating binary systems.