Tag Archive for 'Glitch'

An artist’s impression of a magnetar eruption. Image credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.

Astronomers Detect Spin-Down Glitch in Distant Magnetar

Jan 27, 2023 by News Staff

Magnetars are a special subset of the isolated neutron star family, with X-ray and radio emission mainly powered by the decay of their immense magnetic...

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...