A Massive Pulsar in a Compact Relativistic Binary
- J. Antoniadis, P. Freire, D. Whelan
- Physics, GeologyScience
- 25 April 2013
Introduction Neutron stars with masses above 1.8 solar masses (M☉), possess extreme gravitational fields, which may give rise to phenomena outside general relativity. These strong-field deviations…
A direct localization of a fast radio burst and its host
- S. Chatterjee, C. Law, H. Langevelde
- PhysicsNature
- 4 January 2017
The authors' observations are inconsistent with the fast radio burst having a Galactic origin or its source being located within a prominent star-forming galaxy, and the source appears to be co-located with a low-luminosity active galactic nucleus or a previously unknown type of extragalactic source.
THE NUCLEAR SPECTROSCOPIC TELESCOPE ARRAY (NuSTAR) HIGH-ENERGY X-RAY MISSION
- F. Harrison, W. Craig, C. M. Urry
- PhysicsIEEE Aerospace Conference
- 30 January 2013
The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) mission, launched on 2012 June 13, is the first focusing high-energy X-ray telescope in orbit. NuSTAR operates in the band from 3 to 79 keV,…
The Host Galaxy and Redshift of the Repeating Fast Radio Burst FRB 121102
- S. Tendulkar, C. Bassa, R. Wharton
- Physics
- 4 January 2017
The precise localization of the repeating fast radio burst (FRB 121102) has provided the first unambiguous association (chance coincidence probability p ≲ 3 × 10−4) of an FRB with an optical and…
Birth and Evolution of Isolated Radio Pulsars
- C. Faucher-Giguère, V. Kaspi
- Physics
- 23 December 2005
We investigate the birth and evolution of Galactic isolated radio pulsars. We begin by estimating their birth space velocity distribution from proper-motion measurements of Brisken and coworkers. We…
A repeating fast radio burst
- L. Spitler, P. Scholz, W. W. Zhu
- PhysicsNature
- 2 March 2016
These repeat bursts with high dispersion measure and variable spectra specifically seen from the direction of FRB 121102 support an origin in a young, highly magnetized, extragalactic neutron star.
An ultraluminous X-ray source powered by an accreting neutron star
- M. Bachetti, F. Harrison, W. Zhang
- PhysicsNature
- 8 October 2014
The majority of ultraluminous X-ray sources are point sources that are spatially offset from the nuclei of nearby galaxies and whose X-ray luminosities exceed the theoretical maximum for spherical…
A Radio Pulsar Spinning at 716 Hz
A 716-hertz eclipsing binary radio pulsar in the globular cluster Terzan 5 using the Green Bank Telescope is discovered, it is the fastest spinning neutron star found to date, and constrains models that suggest that gravitational radiation, through an r-mode (Rossby wave) instability, limits the maximum spin frequency of neutron stars.
A Radio Pulsar/X-ray Binary Link
- A. Archibald, I. Stairs, R. Remillard
- PhysicsScience
- 20 May 2009
From X-ray Binary to Pulsar Pulsars with millisecond rotational periods are thought to originate from neutron stars in low-mass x-ray binaries that had their spin frequencies increased by…
THE FIRST FERMI LARGE AREA TELESCOPE CATALOG OF GAMMA-RAY PULSARS
- A. Abdo, M. Ackermann, M. Ziegler
- Physics
- 8 October 2009
The dramatic increase in the number of known gamma-ray pulsars since the launch of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (formerly GLAST) offers the first opportunity to study a sizable population of…
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