Tag Archive for 'Binary pulsar'

An artist’s impression of a pulsar. Image credit: Sci-News.com.

FAST Radio Telescope Discovers 201 New Pulsars

May 20, 2021 by Natali Anderson

Astronomers using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) have discovered 201 pulsars, including currently the faintest pulsars...

Composite image of the X-ray pulsar SXP 1062 surrounded by the supernova remnant. The false-color image combines X-ray (blue) and optical data (oxygen - green, hydrogen - red). Image credit: ESA / XMM-Newton / L. Oskinova, University of Potsdam / M. Guerrero, Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia / Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory / R. Gruendl & Y. H. Chu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Astronomers Observe ‘Glitch’ in Binary Pulsar for First Time

Sep 8, 2017 by News Staff

The discovery of the largest timing irregularity yet observed in a pulsar is the first confirmation that binary pulsars (pulsars orbiting with a companion...