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Showing posts with label gamma-ray emission. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gamma-ray emission. 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.