092054

Numerous new millisecond pulsars have been discovered in the past few years.However despite the great amount of multiwavelength data for some systemsparticularly in radio and optical many of these new systems lack substantialX-ray observations. Here we propose a deep XMM-Newton observation of 4FGLJ1947.6-1121 to search for pulsed X-ray emission and characterize its spectrumand variability. The existence of this recently detected MSP confirms a newsubclass of long-period MSP binaries with giant companions--the plausibleprogenitors for typical MSP-white dwarf binaries observed in the field. Theseobservations will be the first of their kind aimed at this new subclass of MSPand will help establish a firm evolutionary link between the bulk of the MSP binary population and their precursors. [truncated! Please see actual data for full text]