Sentences with phrase «from nearby pulsars»
Three projects currently read the timing of radio waves arriving from nearby pulsars: the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array in Australia, North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves and the European Pulsar Timing Array.
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But more mundane explanations are also plausible: Positrons might be spewed from nearby pulsars, the spinning remnants of exploded stars, for example.
Not exact matches
HAWC researchers tested how positrons travel through space by measuring gamma rays, or high - energy light, from two nearby pulsars — Geminga and Monogem — around 900 light - years away.
By catching and counting particles of light streaming from these nearby stellar engines, the HAWC collaboration showed that the two pulsars are unlikely to be the origin of the positron excess.
Millisecond pulsars probably arise when a neutron star pulls gas from a nearby companion star.
Some theorists have attributed this strange excess to nearby pulsars — fast - spinning stellar remnants — but Hooper suspects that it comes from interactions between dark particles as they whip around the Milky Way.
The electrons could come from a nearby astrophysical object, such as a pulsar, that lies within 3000 light years from Earth.