Sentences with phrase «of nearby pulsars»
The researchers then combined that information with a map of nearby pulsars to find — for the first time — the probability of a definitive detection over time.
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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.
The researchers observed FRB 150807 while monitoring a nearby pulsar — a rotating neutron star that emits a beam of radio waves and other electromagnetic radiation — in our galaxy using the Parkes radio telescope in Australia.
Two nearby powerful pulsars aren't responsible for the stream of antimatter positrons snaking past Earth, so dark matter might be behind it after all
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.
«Our analysis does not support previous claims that the two nearby pulsars are responsible for the excess of positrons detected by two space - born telescopes, the Italian - lead PAMELA project and the AMS - 02 detector of NASA,» she says.
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.
The size of this stellar debris field, measured by the patch of sky that glows bright in gamma rays, tells researchers how quickly matter moves relative to a local astrophysical engine — in this case, the nearby pulsars.
This star's capricious behavior appears to be fueled by a nearby companion star and may give new insights into the birth of millisecond pulsars.
To find out whether the jets could be the result of a magnetic field produced by charged ions swirling around in the gas, Eatough and colleagues looked at a nearby pulsar.