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Showing posts with label Transient pulsars. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Transient pulsars. Show all posts

Thursday, May 10, 2018

The first time that an "exploding pulsar" was a slow-pulsating transient pulsar


The University of Southampton, Great Britain, discovered that a unique "exploding pulsar" - a neutron star that "pulls" matter from a companion star - may also be the slowest transient pulsar known to science. Transient pulsars are a rare class of neutron stars that perform transitions from x-ray to radio pulsations and back for several years.