Difference between revisions of "Pulsars"
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Revision as of 20:08, 10 March 2007
Questions in this category have been asked by DC, PJ
- Can you get pulsed emission from a compact object?
- What are X-ray pulsars & why do we observe pulsed X-ray emission?
- What is a radio pulsar?
- What powers it?
- How can we measure the power radiated?
- What are typical pulsar periods?
- What's the difference between millisecond and second pulsars?
- Why is the period approximately constant?
- Why does it decay?
- Why does the B field decay?
- What's the significance of the Hulse-Taylor binary pulsar?
- What do you know about gravitational radiation?
- What's the significance of the Crab nebula?
