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'transformer' pulsar
Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2014 12:10 am
by tvi
Fermi finds a 'transformer' pulsar
http://phys.org/news/2014-07-fermi-pulsar.html
"The pulsar's radio beacon vanished, while at the same time the system brightened fivefold in gamma rays"
What next, "Autobot Pulsars"?
Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2014 11:09 am
by bperet
Care to take a guess at the explanation for this, using the Reciprocal System? Larson wrote quite a bit on pulsars.
Some things to consider...
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There are NO binary pulsars (which is why they are "usually difficult or impossible to observe")
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Stars don't spin at 43,000 RPM (who, but astronomers, could believe that anyway???)
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Pulsars move in the ultra-high speed range (3-x), so they move in an anti-gravity fashion (which is why you can't have a binary)
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All radiation above unit speed is quantized.
(Read Larson's paper on
Astronomical X-Ray Sources for a good description of where the gamma rays would be coming from.)