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Why don’t they just break up?

Why don’t they just break up?

by Thankful Cromartie | Nov 16, 2018 | Daily Paper Summaries

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?

#MeToo, Grad School, and You

#MeToo, Grad School, and You

by Thankful Cromartie | Oct 12, 2018 | Daily Paper Summaries

What do findings from the report on sexual harassment by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine mean in an era of social upheaval?

Huntsman Spiders and the Race to Discover the Origins of “Boring” Millisecond Pulsars

Huntsman Spiders and the Race to Discover the Origins of “Boring” Millisecond Pulsars

by Thankful Cromartie | Sep 5, 2018 | Daily Paper Summaries

Attention arachno-astronomers: a third class of “spider” pulsars could illuminate the mysterious evolution of the most boring (and ubiquitous) millisecond pulsar binaries.

Photons from the “Dark Side” of Neutron Stars Could Help Unravel a Supernuclear Mystery

Photons from the “Dark Side” of Neutron Stars Could Help Unravel a Supernuclear Mystery

by Thankful Cromartie | Jul 27, 2018 | Daily Paper Summaries

What can we learn from a compact object that shows us all of its sides simultaneously?

A Paleo-Detector for Dark Matter: How Ancient Rocks Could Help Unravel the Mystery

A Paleo-Detector for Dark Matter: How Ancient Rocks Could Help Unravel the Mystery

by Thankful Cromartie | Jun 19, 2018 | Daily Paper Summaries

A “paleo-detector” may sound more like a Jurassic Park plot point than an astrophysics experiment, but today’s featured paper shows us that digging deep for ancient minerals may be an effective way to characterize the ever-mysterious nature of dark matter.

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