A Pulsar’s Surface Map Gets a NICER Update
Recent X-ray observations of a pulsar reveal a stranger configuration of “hot spots” than previously thought.
Recent X-ray observations of a pulsar reveal a stranger configuration of “hot spots” than previously thought.
Ever wondered what a neutron star would look like up close? Here is your answer!
Millisecond pulsars haven’t been observed to spin faster than ~700 Hz — if they don’t fly apart until ~1 kHz, why haven’t we found any faster specimens?
The next glitch on pulsar J0537-6910 can be predicted to within a few days.
We thought we knew how quickly the white dwarf pulsar in AR Scorpii was spinning down, but a new study tells us we can’t know for sure.
Continuous gravitational waves produced by spinning neutron stars are another avenue for LIGO to listen to the Universe.