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Millisecond Pulsars

Recycling Pulsars – The Millisecond Matters…

February 4, 2012

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter It’s a millisecond pulsar… a rapidly rotating neutron star and it’s about to reach the end of its mass gathering phase. For ages the vampire of this binary system has been sucking matter from a donor star. It has been busy, [...]

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Students Discover Millisecond Pulsar, Help in the Search for Gravitational Waves

January 30, 2012

A special project to search for pulsars has bagged the first student discovery of a millisecond pulsar – a super-fast spinning star, and this one rotates about 324 times per second. The Pulsar Search Collaboratory (PSC) has students analyzing real data from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory’s (NRAO) Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) [...]

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Star Transforms Into A Diamond Planet

August 25, 2011

“Remember when you were young… You shone like the sun.” Four thousand light years away in the constellation of Serpens, a millisecond pulsar binary is pounding out its heartbeat. Meanwhile an international research team of scientists from Australia, Germany, Italy, the UK and the USA, including Prof. Michael Kramer from Max Planck Institute for Radio [...]

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