Mysterious radio pulses from space have been tracked down—and the source is not what astronomers expected
In the past three years, astronomers have discovered a mysterious new type of radio source. We call these long-period ...
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Two-star system explains unusual astrophysical phenomenon
An international team of astrophysicists led by the Netherlands and the UK have discovered that radio pulses lasting seconds ...
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Lowell Center for Space Science and Technology (LoCSST)
A HMXB can either have an early type O or B star. If the B star shows or had shown any H- emission line in the past, it is denoted as a Be star. Be stars also show excess in Infrared (IR) emission.
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Supernova simulations show that low-mass star in binary system J0453+1559 could be a neutron star
The nature of this light mass star in the J0453+1559 binary pulsar system has not yet been fully elucidated ... instead ...
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Bell and Hewish discover pulsars
a neutron star. Bell and Hewish's discovery was the first known evidence for this, and the pulsing signal source became known as a pulsar. They changed the name of the signal from LGM to CP ...
'A 2-hour mystery pulse': Radio signals from space reveal hidden White Dwarf system
Astronomers discovered a mysterious 2-hour radio pulse from a hidden white dwarf system, revealing a new type of stellar duo ...
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'Dark matter is more valuable than gold': Wobbly galaxies help shine a light on the universe's strangest stuff
As more neutron star data is collected, the gravitational acceleration measurement of binary pulsars and their single counterparts could shine a light on the gravitational field of the Milky Way ...
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Supernova simulations show that low-mass star in binary system J0453+1559 could be a neutron star
The nature of this light mass star in the J0453+1559 binary pulsar system has not yet been ... Notably, these two types of stars have different origins: a neutron star is formed when a massive ...