A Population of Fast Radio Bursts at Cosmological Distances
- D. Thornton, B. Stappers, W. van Straten
- PhysicsScience
- 5 July 2013
The detection of four nonrepeating radio transient events with millisecond duration in data from the 64-meter Parkes radio telescope in Australia indicates that these radio bursts had their origin outside the authors' galaxy, but it is not possible to tell what caused them.
An increased estimate of the merger rate of double neutron stars from observations of a highly relativistic system
- M. Burgay, N. D'Amico, D. Lorimer
- PhysicsNature
- 2 December 2003
This work reports the discovery of a 22-ms pulsar, PSR J0737–3039, which is a member of a highly relativistic double-neutron-star binary with an orbital period of 2.4 hours, which implies an order-of-magnitude increase in the predicted merger rate for double- NEUTron- star systems in the authors' Galaxy (and in the rest of the Universe).
THE SECOND FERMI LARGE AREA TELESCOPE CATALOG OF GAMMA-RAY PULSARS
- A. Abdo, M. Ajello, Zhirong Yang
- Physics
- 19 September 2013
This catalog summarizes 117 high-confidence ⩾0.1 GeV gamma-ray pulsar detections using three years of data acquired by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi satellite. Half are neutron stars…
A Double-Pulsar System: A Rare Laboratory for Relativistic Gravity and Plasma Physics
The detection of the 2.8-second pulsar J0737–3039B as the companion to the 23-millisecond pulsars in a highly relativistic double neutron star system, allowing unprecedented tests of fundamental gravitational physics.
Tests of General Relativity from Timing the Double Pulsar
By measuring relativistic corrections to the Keplerian description of the orbital motion, it is found that the “post-Keplerian” parameter s agrees with the value predicted by general relativity within an uncertainty of 0.05%, the most precise test yet obtained.
The Parkes Multibeam Pulsar Survey - VI. Discovery and timing of 142 pulsars and a Galactic population analysis
- D. Lorimer, A. Faulkner, F. Crawford
- Physics
- 28 July 2006
We present the discovery and follow-up observations of 142 pulsars found in the Parkes 20-cm multibeam pulsar survey of the Galactic plane. These new discoveries bring the total number of pulsars…
Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger
- B. Abbott, R. Abbott, P. Woudt
- PhysicsProceedings of Multifrequency Behaviour of High…
- 26 October 2019
On 2017 August 17 a binary neutron star coalescence candidate (later designated GW170817) with merger time 12:41:04 UTC was observed through gravitational waves by the Advanced LIGO and Advanced…
Transformation of a Star into a Planet in a Millisecond Pulsar Binary
- M. Bailes, S. Bates, W. van Straten
- Physics, GeologyScience
- 25 August 2011
This pulsar PSR J1719−1438, a 5.7-millisecond pulsar detected in a recent survey with the Parkes 64-meter radio telescope, is shown to be in a binary system with an orbital period of 2.2 hours.
The host galaxy of a fast radio burst
- E. Keane, S. Johnston, C. Bassa
- PhysicsNature
- 25 February 2016
The discovery of a fast radio burst is reported and the identification of a fading radio transient lasting ~6 days after the event, which is used to identify the host galaxy and measure the galaxy’s redshift, which provides a direct measurement of the cosmic density of ionized baryons in the intergalactic medium.
Transient radio bursts from rotating neutron stars
- M. Mclaughlin, A. Lyne, J. O’Brien
- PhysicsNature
- 19 November 2005
A search for radio sources that vary on much shorter timescales, finding eleven objects characterized by single, dispersed bursts having durations between 2 and 30 ms, suggesting origins in rotating neutron stars.
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