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- Wed Jul 22, 2015 11:44 am
- Forum: Astronomy and Cosmology
- Topic: Pulsar punches hole in stellar disk
- Replies: 1
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Pulsar punches hole in stellar disk
http://phys.org/news/2015-07-pulsar-hole-stellar-disk.html A fast-moving pulsar appears to have punched a hole in a disk of gas around its companion star and launched a fragment of the disk outward at a speed of about 4 million miles per hour. These observations show the clump moving away from B125...
- Wed Jul 23, 2014 12:10 am
- Forum: Astronomy and Cosmology
- Topic: 'transformer' pulsar
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5912
'transformer' pulsar
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"
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"
- Wed Sep 25, 2013 2:14 pm
- Forum: Astronomy and Cosmology
- Topic: 'Jekyll and Hyde' star morphs from radio to X-ray pulsar and back again
- Replies: 1
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'Jekyll and Hyde' star morphs from radio to X-ray pulsar and back again
<r>"This was particularly intriguing because radio pulses don't come from an X-ray binary and the X-ray source has to be long gone before radio signals can emerge."<br/> <br/> Read more at: <URL url="http://phys.org/news/2013-09-jekyll-hyde-star-morphs-radio.html"><LINK_TEXT text="http://phys.org/ne...
- Wed May 29, 2013 1:54 pm
- Forum: Astronomy and Cosmology
- Topic: Super-dense star is first ever found suddenly slowing its spin
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7253
Super-dense star is first ever found suddenly slowing its spin
http://phys.org/news/2013-05-cosmic-glitch-super-dense-star-suddenly.html "This neutron star is doing something completely unexpected. Its speed of rotation has been dropping at an increasingly rapid rate ever since the initial sudden decrease in its spin." ...... "These discoveries ...