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An international team of astronomers has detected synchronous X-ray and radio mode switching between radio-bright and a radio-quiet modes in the pulsar PSR B0823+26. The discovery marks the second time that such synchronous mode switching has been observed in a pulsar. The finding is detailed in a paper published August 6 on arXiv.org.
To date, synchronous X-ray and radio mode switching has been identified only in one old and nearly aligned pulsar known as PSR B0943+10. Therefore, astronomers are interested in finding such behavior in other objects in order to improve knowledge about the poorly understood mechanisms behind this activity.
[...] PSR B0823+26, located some 1,000 light years away from the Earth, is one of the brightest radio pulsars in the Northern sky. It has a period about 530 milliseconds, a spin-down age of approximately 4.9 million years and an inferred magnetic field of around 980 billion G.
Source: Astronomers detect synchronous X-ray and radio mode switching of the pulsar PSR B0823+26
(Score: 4, Insightful) by aristarchus on Tuesday August 21 2018, @05:59AM (4 children)
I, too, and glad the actual astronomers are paying attention to the variations of pulsars. It is about time. But the Electric Universe people are far, far outside the realm of actual science. Arp caught flak for the "red shift" thing, but that was almost a reasonable theory. The Electric Universe people are closer to either astrology, or Ptolemy's geocentrism. Be careful when you believe what you want to believe is true, for then you can never trust your own intuitions as they will most certainly betray you. Give me an experimental model, or shut the fuck up.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 21 2018, @09:20AM (2 children)
I love it when a philosopher swears.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 21 2018, @10:07AM
Ssssexy! Yeah.
Just sayin'
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday August 21 2018, @02:22PM
Look, maybe electric universe people could find a more productive pursuit. Abandon their silly explanations for pulsar variations. It's aliens! Their advanced civilization manipulates pulsars to broadcast signals, navigational information, and infomercials.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by DannyB on Tuesday August 21 2018, @02:07PM
You forgot to mention flat earthers.
The earth is flat. (in a nth dimensional sense. In fact, the entire universe is flat. It is extremely thin in all but 3 of the dimensions.) This flat universe is on the back of an nth dimensional turtle. It is turtles all the way down. An infinite stack of turtles. The very bottom turtle of that infinite stack is propelled by a rocket at 9.8 m/s^2 giving us the illusion of gravity. The rocket's energy is from a perpetual motion machine.
Silly round earthers might ask silly questions like: okay, then please explain why the sun moves south in the winter?
Silly round earther, the sun goes south for the winter for the same reason the birds go south for the winter -- because it's warmer in the south during winter.
The reason we have the moon is because of the tides. The tides cause the moon. If you look into it you will observe a perfect correlation which cannot be a simple coincidence.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.