Optical pulsations from a transitional millisecond pulsar
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DOI: 10.1038/s41550-017-0266-2
Abstract: Millisecond pulsars are neutron stars that attain their very fast rotation during a 108–109-yr-long phase of disk accretion of matter from a low-mass companion star1,2. They can be detected as accretion-powered millisecond X-ray pulsars if… read more here.
Keywords: pulsar; accretion; millisecond; optical pulsations ... See more keywords