{"id":117218,"date":"2020-12-16T17:26:51","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T01:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/giant-pulses-detected-in-the-pulsar-psr-j1047%e2%88%926709"},"modified":"2020-12-16T17:26:51","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T01:26:51","slug":"giant-pulses-detected-in-the-pulsar-psr-j1047%e2%88%926709","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/giant-pulses-detected-in-the-pulsar-psr-j1047%e2%88%926709","title":{"rendered":"Giant pulses detected in the pulsar PSR J1047\u22126709"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/giant-pulses-detected-in-the-pulsar-psr-j1047e288926709.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using the Parkes radio telescope, Chinese astronomers have investigated an isolated pulsar known as PSR J1047\u22126709 and detected dozens of giant pulses during the bright state of this source. The finding is reported in a paper published December 10 on the arXiv pre-print repository.<\/p>\n<p>Pulsars are highly magnetized, rotating neutron stars emitting a beam of electromagnetic radiation. They are usually detected in the form of short bursts of radio emission, however, some of them are also observed using optical, X-ray and gamma-ray telescopes. To date, most pulsars have been discovered using the Parkes Observatory in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Some pulsars showcase the so-called giant pulses (GPs)\u2014short-duration, burst-like radio emissions from a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/pulsar\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">pulsar<\/a>, with energies exceeding the average pulse energy by 10 times or even much more. So far, such activity has only been detected in 16 pulsars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using the Parkes radio telescope, Chinese astronomers have investigated an isolated pulsar known as PSR J1047\u22126709 and detected dozens of giant pulses during the bright state of this source. The finding is reported in a paper published December 10 on the arXiv pre-print repository. Pulsars are highly magnetized, rotating neutron stars emitting a beam of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}