Pulsars

In order to test the dynamo model theory, however, scientists needed to search for other white dwarf pulsars in order to see if the theory held up.

Pulsars are fast-spinning magnetic star remains that spew electromagnetic radiation.

Pulsars are highly magnetized, rotating emitting a beam of electromagnetic radiation from their poles, most commonly in the form of radio waves.

Are pulsars the key to finding dark matter?

In one of the most jam-packed places in our Milky Way, many pulsars in Terzan 5 have evolved into bizarre and eccentric forms.

Its size allows it to detect faint radio-waves from pulsars and material in galaxies at vast distances.

Pulsars—rapidly spinning stars that shoot beams of electromagnetic radiation from their highly magnetic poles—were first discovered in 1967.

In astrophysics, gamma rays are known to be produced by some of the most energetic objects in the universe: supernova explosions, pulsars, neutron stars and the swirling environments around black holes.

With this telescope, she and others discovered the first radio pulsars in 1967.

As a researcher, Drake was involved in the early work on pulsars.

In 1974, Antony Hewish was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for his decisive role in the discovery of pulsars" without Jocelyn Bell who shared in the discovery.

P and Pdot can be also used to calculate the characteristic age of a pulsar, but gives an estimate which is somewhat larger than the true age when it is applied to young pulsars.

The first came when the 1974 prize went, in part, to Antony Hewish for his leading role in the discovery of pulsars.

The majority of known neutron stars (about 2000, as of 2010) have been discovered as pulsars, emitting regular radio pulses.

The radiation from pulsars is thought to be primarily emitted from regions near their magnetic poles.

Unbeknown to him, radio astronomer Antony Hewish and his research assistant Jocelyn Bell at Cambridge were shortly to detect radio pulses from stars that are now believed to be highly magnetized, rapidly spinning neutron stars, known as pulsars.