NEW SCIENTIST: We’ve found a pulsar spinning so slowly that it shouldn’t exist

Chia Min Tan

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A distant pulsar is taking it slow – so slow that it shouldn’t exist. Radio pulsars are rapidly-spinning neutron stars that emit a beam of powerful radio waves, and we’ve just found one rotating so slowly that its beam should have been snuffed out.

Chia Min Tan at the University of Manchester, UK and his colleagues found this sluggish star using the Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR), a set of radio telescopes based mostly in the Netherlands.

Period	14 Sept 2018

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Title	We’ve found a pulsar spinning so slowly that it shouldn’t exist
Media name/outlet	New Scientist
Media type	Web
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
Date	14/09/18
Description	A distant pulsar is taking it slow – so slow that it shouldn’t exist. Radio pulsars are rapidly-spinning neutron stars that emit a beam of powerful radio waves, and we’ve just found one rotating so slowly that its beam should have been snuffed out. Chia Min Tan at the University of Manchester, UK and his colleagues found this sluggish star using the Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR), a set of radio telescopes based mostly in the Netherlands.
URL	https://www.newscientist.com/article/2179544-weve-found-a-pulsar-spinning-so-slowly-that-it-shouldnt-exist/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&campaign_id=RSS%7CNSNS-
Persons	Chia Min Tan

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pulsars
space
astronomy