Pulsar spins from an instability in the accretion shock of supernovae

Nature

Volumn 445, Issue 7123, 2007, Pages 58-60

  Blondin, John M ^a   Mezzacappa, Anthony ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTON;

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; ASTROPHYSICS; COSMOLOGY; EXTRATERRESTRIAL FEATURE; INSTABILITY; RADIO WAVE; ROTATION; X-RAY;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ENTROPY; FLOW KINETICS; NEUTRON; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSATILE FLOW; ROTATION; THEORY;

EID: 33846115008     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05428     Document Type: Article

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