Captured! Radio telescope records a rare 'glitch' in a pulsar's regular pulsing beat
- Written by Jim Palfreyman, PhD candidate in astronomy, University of Tasmania
The Vela pulsar makes about 11 complete rotations every second, it also has a glitch.X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ of Toronto/M.Durant et al; Optical: DSS/Davide De Martin
Pulsars are rapidly rotating neutron stars and sometimes they abruptly increase their rotation rate. This sudden change of spin rate is called a “glitch” and I was part of a...
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