18 January 2017
The unusual tails of a pulsar give a clue as to what type of pulse it generates
... down to looking at them from a different perspective. Pulsars are highly magnetised, fast spinning neutron stars – the ... acceleration that takes place at the intersection of a pulsar wind and the interstellar material. Although the explanation for...
09 January 2017
X-rays from a 'missing link' neutron star could shed light on magnetar mystery
.... PSR J1119-6127 is a type of neutron star known as a radio pulsar – an extremely dense remnant of an exploded star that emits radio waves in...X-rays and gamma rays over time to become normal pulsars. But not everyone agrees with this hypothesis. It is...
12 September 2018
Birth of new star from a supernova seen for first time
... we never saw direct evidence of it at this unique time frame," Milisavljevic said. "This a key moment when the pulsar wind nebula is bright enough to act like a lightbulb illuminating the explosion's outer ejecta." "If we return to some of these...
17 November 2017
Excess positrons immersing Earth have unknown origin
...arriving at Earth, started life in a number of near-by pulsars. "We know that high-energy particles of cosmic rays, ...positrons bathing our planet. "Since the involvement of close-by pulsars in the generation of high-energy positrons reaching us is so...
31 January 2020
Einsteins prediction of 'draggable' space-time confirmed by stellar binary system
...identify a long-term drift in the system’s orbital parameters. Pulsars are cosmic clocks, says Krishnan. “Their high rotational stability...arrival time of its pulses is probably due to the pulsar's motion or due to the electrons and magnetic fields ...
March 2018
Exploring the extreme universe
... have been discussed above, e-ASTROGAM will observe with serendipity a large class of phenomena consisting of objects such as pulsars, magnetars, novae, and binary objects. And of course, since it will focus on a relatively unexplored region of the...
