Twenty-one millisecond pulsars in Terzan 5 using the Green Bank Telescope

Science

Volumn 307, Issue 5711, 2005, Pages 892-896

  Ransom, Scott M ^a,b   Hessels, Jason W T ^b   Stairs, Ingrid H ^c   Freire, Paulo C C ^d   Camilo, Fernando ^e   Kaspi, Victoria M ^b   Kaplan, David L ^f  

^a NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d ARECIBO OBSERVATORY   (Puerto Rico)

^e Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^f MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; EQUATIONS OF STATE; SUN; TELESCOPES;

BINARY SYSTEM; ECLIPSE; MILLISECOND PULSARS (MSP); NUCLEAR EQUILIBRIUM DENSITY;

ASTRONOMY;

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COSMIC RADIATION; DENSITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLAR ENERGY; SUN;

PERIASTRON;

EID: 13644267184     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1108632     Document Type: Article

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