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How long would we survive an approaching neutron star?
I recently came across PSR B1620−26. A neutron star that captured a sun like star with an orbiting planet. The system went through several stages of development, but through it all the orbiting planet ...
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Is the smaller companion of Pulsar J0453+1559 still the smallest known neutron star? Was it further confirmed to be a NS after Martinez et al. (2015)?
@ProfRob's Physics SE answer to What is the theoretical lower mass limit for a gravitationally stable neutron star? was linked just now in their answer to Can a neutron star ever be less than about 1....
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What exactly is "the rotating lighthouse model" in the context of a double pulsar?
The introduction to Testing the rotating lighthouse model with the double pulsar system PSR J0737-3039A/B (open access) says:
The double pulsar system PSR J0737-3039A/B was discovered by Burgay et al....
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How to improve efficiency in periodicity detection?
Our data set has $10^4$ data points, but has a long baseline and many gaps.
If we bin the data, there would be $10^8$ data points ($[t,\rm {value}]$), but only about 1% are non-zero values.
How to ...
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Hulse Taylor Binary Pulsar - How is "Cumulative Periastron Time shift" calculated?
Following on from a previous question about the interesting Hulse Taylor Binary Pulsar.
BACKGROUD
Weisberg & Taylor, 2004 present a graph showing the change in "Cumulative Periastron Time Shift" ...
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