Tiny Stars in a Tiny Orbit: A New Ultracompact Binary
The discovery of the record-setting 38 minute orbit of IGR J17062-6143 makes it the fastest known accreting milllisecond pulsar orbiting in binary system!
Huntsman Spiders and the Race to Discover the Origins of “Boring” Millisecond Pulsars
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
What can we learn from a compact object that shows us all of its sides simultaneously?
Looking back at the Hulse-Taylor Binary Pulsar
We revisit the discovery of the binary pulsar and it’s important impact on modern astronomy and astrophysics.
Sensing a Pulsar’s Sense of Rotation
It should be easy to figure out which way a pulsar is spinning, right? Wrong.
The Backwards Discs around Be/X-ray Binaries
In Be/X-ray binaries — systems in which a Be star spins so fast that it throws its own matter away towards its neutron star companion — it’s possible for accretion discs to form that spin backwards. What does this mean for the stars?