Decoding Magnetic Galactic Binaries with LISA
Today’s bite demonstrates that decoding the gravitational wave signals from magnetic binary stars offers unprecedented insights into the behavior of magnetic fields in these extreme environments.
Today’s bite demonstrates that decoding the gravitational wave signals from magnetic binary stars offers unprecedented insights into the behavior of magnetic fields in these extreme environments.
Neutron stars (NSs) are the most extreme objects known, composed of a form of matter so extraordinarily dense that it teeters on the brink of collapse into a black hole.
How well do we know stars other than the Sun?
What is a “gravilaser,” and why might astronomers want to make one?
MeerKAT, a radio telescope, made a movie of the 2020 Great Conjunction between Jupiter and Saturn, and found a new pulsar in the background.
Today’s authors analyze the time delay between energetic flares coming from a black hole x-ray binary system, and try to determine if this is evidence of a magnetic process occuring in the accretion disk.