{"id":138649,"date":"2022-04-25T10:04:02","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T15:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/new-double-neutron-star-millisecond-pulsar-discovered"},"modified":"2022-04-25T10:04:02","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T15:04:02","slug":"new-double-neutron-star-millisecond-pulsar-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/new-double-neutron-star-millisecond-pulsar-discovered","title":{"rendered":"New double neutron star millisecond pulsar discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-double-neutron-star-millisecond-pulsar-discovered2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a rare double neutron star millisecond pulsar. The newfound binary pulsar, designated PSR J1325\u22126253, consists of two neutron stars orbiting one another every 1.8 days. The finding is detailed in a paper published April 14 on arXiv.org.<\/p>\n<p>The most rapidly rotating pulsars, those with rotation periods below 30 milliseconds, are known as <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/millisecond+pulsars\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">millisecond pulsars<\/a> (MSPs). It is assumed that they are formed in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/binary+systems\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">binary systems<\/a> when the initially more massive component turns into a neutron star that is then spun-up due to accretion of matter from the secondary star.<\/p>\n<p>Some pulsars consist of two <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/neutron+stars\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">neutron stars<\/a> (dubbed double neutron star systems\u2014DNS). They are one of the most important classes of objects used to test and understand numerous astrophysical and fundamental physics phenomena, including <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/general+relativity\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">general relativity<\/a> in the strong-field regime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a rare double neutron star millisecond pulsar. The newfound binary pulsar, designated PSR J1325\u22126253, consists of two neutron stars orbiting one another every 1.8 days. The finding is detailed in a paper published April 14 on arXiv.org. The most rapidly rotating pulsars, those with rotation periods [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138649","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}