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Astronomers Discover Rare ‘Redback’ Millisecond Pulsar | Astronomy – Sci-News.com
Using data from NASA’s Fermi Space Telescope and the enormous computing power of the citizen science project Einstein@Home, astronomers have found that PSR J2039-5617,…
Using data from NASAs Fermi Space Telescope and the enormous computing power of the citizen science project Einstein@Home, astronomers have found that PSR J2039-5617, a gamma-ray pulsar rotating 377 times a second, is in orbit with a stellar companion with a mass of about 0.15 solar masses.
An artists impression of PSR J2039-5617 and its companion. Image credit: B. Knispel / C.J. Clark / Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics / NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center.
Millisecond pulsars are ancient…
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