A radio pulsar spinning at 716 Hz

Science

Volumn 311, Issue 5769, 2006, Pages 1901-1904

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

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center   (United States)

^e Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; GRAVITATION; GRAVITY WAVES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TELESCOPES;

FLUX DENSITY; NEUTRON STARS; RADIO PULSAR; SPINNING NEUTRON STAR;

ASTRONOMY;

GRAVITY WAVE; INSTABILITY; RADIO WAVE;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DENSITY; GRAVITATIONAL STRESS; NEUTRON; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION; SPECTROSCOPY; WAVEFORM;

EID: 33645467635     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1123430     Document Type: Article

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