{"id":141716,"date":"2022-07-05T21:26:33","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T02:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/gamma-ray-pulsations-detected-from-pulsar-psr-j1835%e2%88%923259b"},"modified":"2022-07-05T21:26:33","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T02:26:33","slug":"gamma-ray-pulsations-detected-from-pulsar-psr-j1835%e2%88%923259b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/gamma-ray-pulsations-detected-from-pulsar-psr-j1835%e2%88%923259b","title":{"rendered":"Gamma-ray pulsations detected from pulsar PSR J1835\u22123259B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/gamma-ray-pulsations-detected-from-pulsar-psr-j1835e288923259b2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using NASA\u2019s Fermi space telescope, Chinese astronomers have investigated a newly discovered millisecond pulsar known as PSR J1835\u22123259B. As a result, they identified gamma-ray pulsations from this source. The finding is reported in a paper published June 27 on the arXiv pre-print server.<\/p>\n<p>Pulsars are highly magnetized, rotating <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/neutron+stars\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">neutron stars<\/a> emitting a beam of electromagnetic radiation. The most rapidly rotating pulsars, with rotation periods below 30 milliseconds, are known as <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/millisecond+pulsars\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">millisecond pulsars<\/a> (MSPs). Astronomers assume that they are formed in binary systems 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>PSR J1835\u22123259B is a recently discovered MSP in the globular cluster NGC 6652. It has a spin period of approximately 1.83 milliseconds and is in a nearly <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/circular+orbit\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">circular orbit<\/a> of about 28.7 hours within the cluster. The distance to the pulsar is estimated to be some 32,600 <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/light+years\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">light years<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using NASA\u2019s Fermi space telescope, Chinese astronomers have investigated a newly discovered millisecond pulsar known as PSR J1835\u22123259B. As a result, they identified gamma-ray pulsations from this source. The finding is reported in a paper published June 27 on the arXiv pre-print server. Pulsars are highly magnetized, rotating neutron stars emitting a beam of electromagnetic [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141716","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}