Sentences with phrase «pulsar in a binary system»
Discovery of a pulsar in a binary system.
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The discovery of the largest timing irregularity yet observed in a pulsar is the first confirmation that pulsars in binary systems exhibit the strange phenomenon known as a «glitch».
The planet orbits a pulsar in a binary system with a white dwarf.
Not exact matches
General relativity has been tested with great precision within the solar system, and in binary pulsar systems where gravitational fields are very strong, but never on large scales where gravity's pull is weak.
We show that this pulsar is in a binary system with an orbital period of 2.2 hours.
The fastest pulsars are in binary systems with another object, like a star or a white dwarf.
Although never detected directly, there are indirect hints towards the existence of these elusive waves: Russell A. Hulse and Joseph H. Taylor received the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics for their 1974 discovery of a binary pulsar system that seems to lose energy at a rate that would be compatible with Einstein's predictions.
A team of astronomers has confirmed that a pulsar discovered in 2012 by a group of high - school students is, in fact, part of an extremely rare binary system.
«When we discovered this pulsar in 2009, we noticed that it was in the same direction as this massive star in the constellation Cygnus, but our initial measurements did not give any evidence that either star was a member of a binary system,» Paul Ray, an astrophysicist at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, said, in a statement released Thursday.
Although scientists have yet to detect them directly, the influence of gravitational wave emissions on a binary pulsar system (two neutron stars orbiting each other) has been measured accurately and is in excellent agreement with predictions.
A warp in the fabric of space - time has caused a pulsar in a binary star system about 25,000 light - years from Earth to vanish, at least for now, according to a team of scientists who had been monitoring the star system for over five years.
The prize was given for his discovery of the first «binary pulsar» - a celestial system in which two pulsars (rapidly spinning neutron stars) orbit each other.