A New Recipe for Neutron Star Magnetic Fields
How do neutron stars acquire such strong magnetic fields? Why do these fields differ between pulsars and magnetars? Today’s paper suggests that *convective dynamos* may be at play.
Needles in a haystack: Searching for isolated neutron stars in a massive catalog
Do you want to look through half a million sources by hand? Neither did these astronomers. Here’s how they took a shortcut – and found four new neutron stars.
An explosive hug!
Today’s paper investigates a mysterious stellar explosion that resulted when a black hole or a neutron star crashed into a star.
Double (Neutron Star) Trouble
A new massive pulsar binary system has been found, but could it be an elusive double neutron star system?
Echo location: Finding light echoes from neutron star mergers
Astronomers might have another tool for follow-up observations of merging neutron stars.
UR: Measuring the Hubble Constant With Dynamical Tides In Inspiraling Neutron Star Binaries
In this #UndergradResearch post, James Sunseri explores the possibility of using gravitational waves from colliding neutron stars to measure the Hubble Constant without observing the electromagnetic spectrum.