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Showing posts with label PSRJ1311-3430. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PSRJ1311-3430. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Naked black widow star with orbital period shorter


Although Earth takes 365 days to complete its orbit, the newly discovered pulsar does PSRJ1311-3430 in just 93 minutes, making it the neutron star in a binary system with the shortest orbital period calculated to date. It is also the first discovery of a millisecond pulsar conducted through its gamma-ray emission.

The peculiarities of this new order they are listed in the journal Science.