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posted by mrpg on Tuesday August 21 2018, @03:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the fm dept.

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


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 21 2018, @09:20AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 21 2018, @09:20AM (#724085)

    I love it when a philosopher swears.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 21 2018, @10:07AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 21 2018, @10:07AM (#724096)

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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday August 21 2018, @02:22PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday August 21 2018, @02:22PM (#724176) Journal

    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.

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    People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.