| He dropped all his other investigations and for two days solely observed this persnickety pulsar. |
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| A pulsar, of course, beeps with a regular beat, but it also has a sort of echo. |
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| Most millisecond pulsars hover around the 300 revolutions per second mark, and the fastest spinning pulsar ever detected clocked in at 641 rps. |
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| The tick of this pulsar clock is very regular, a sharp pulse every 0.059 second. |
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| Sifting through these observations, they were able to detect the white dwarf orbiting the pulsar and measure its color and temperature. |
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| The planet, more than twice the size of Jupiter, orbits two stars, a pulsar and a white dwarf that linked together about a billion years ago. |
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| The object is being stimulated by jets from a rapidly spinning neutron star called a pulsar. |
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| Some of the first pulsar planet discoveries were later retracted by their discoverers. |
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| Yet if the dense pulsar, with its strong gravitational potential, is in a binary system, it can pull in material from its companion star. |
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| A pulsar is a rotating neutron star, a remnant of the explosive death throes of a star at least eight times as massive as our own sun. |
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| If the pulsar were indeed a binary, its frequency should at some point start to increase. |
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| The hunt for an X-ray millisecond pulsar has proved puzzlingly slow and drawn-out. |
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| Spotting such radio pulses would be more evidence that this specimen is destined to become a millisecond pulsar. Yet this is all mop-up work. |
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| This is also an argument for using higher frequencies in pulsar timing, when possible. |
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| However, on cosmic scales this pulsar is very much in our neighbourhood. |
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| Collaboration is maintained with a number of radio-astronomy groups observing pulsars and analysing pulsar data. |
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| Jodrell Bank, the radio astronomy observatory in the UK, uses a BBC micro from the early 1980s to steer one of their smaller dishes which tracks a pulsar in the Crab nebula. |
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| The wavelengths of the radio waves emitted by the pulsar are lengthened as a result of the effects of the gravitational field of the companion star. |
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| Surrounding the pulsar is a bright doughnut-shaped, or toroidal, structure, with jet-like features extending in a perpendicular direction away from the torus. |
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| High-precision pulsar timekeeping observations therefore need to be protected from harmful interference. |
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| The basic pulsar model involves a magnetic dipole field tilted with respect to the rotation axis, beaming radio waves along the dipole axis as the star spins. |
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| The decametric radiotelescope is dedicated to the study of comets, physics of galaxies, great structures of the Universe, pulsar chronometry. |
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| Other radio telescopes also have millisecond pulsar observation programmes, but with lower sensitivities than the above observatories. |
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| In the visible light, the pulsar is of 16th apparent magnitude. |
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| In addition to pulsar observing, COBRA will be used for other online observations, for example methanol emission lines from astronomical objects. |
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| The first pulsar readings proved the efficiency of HESS for inter-stellar observations from terrestrial telescopes. |
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| Eventually, even this zombie of a star rests in peace. At least, this is what happens to a pulsar that is the remains of a lonely, companionless star such as the sun. |
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| The X-ray images of the pulsar and the supernova remnant were made last year by the Chandra spacecraft, sent up by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. |
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| Minds may now boggle a little less: the whip for this heavenly spinning top has been found. A millisecond pulsar is the most extreme type of pulsar, itself an extreme example of a neutron star. |
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| They propose that when the transfer is complete and the star has revved up to its maximum spin, the system will switch on as a millisecond radio pulsar. |
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| The Oral-B Pulsar is the latest entry in the hot battery-operated oral care category, which is receiving much attention lately. |
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| Without the raised suspension and rugged looks of its popular stablemates, the Pulsar possesses clean and relatively unfussy lines not always associated with Japanese brands. |
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| She was wearing a gold ring with black and white stones, a silver ring with a white stone, a silver thumb ring with an unusual dinosaur design and a silver Pulsar watch. |
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