Sentences with phrase «regular radio pulses»

Some neutron stars, like the one in the Crab Nebula supernova remnant, are called pulsars because astronomers detect regular radio pulses coming from them.

Pulsars are compact, rotating neutron stars that act like cosmic lighthouses and emit regular radio pulses whose periods can be measured very precisely.

These rapidly spinning neutron stars flash regular radio pulses, and in an upcoming issue of The Astrophysical Journal astronomers say that the timing of such pulses could provide a new understanding of the 4 million solar mass black hole at the center of the Milky Way.

Not exact matches

Katelin Schutz, a theorist at the University of California, Berkeley, says that clarity could come even faster from stellar beacons called millisecond pulsars, which emit exquisitely regular pulses of radio waves.

If orientated properly, a hot spot above the magnetic pole of the neutron star may whirl in and out of view for observers on Earth, producing a regular train of radio pulses separated by anything from a few milliseconds to a few seconds.