{"id":212695,"date":"2025-04-29T01:35:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T06:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/fast-reveals-new-millisecond-pulsar-missed-by-earlier-surveys-due-to-signal-overlap"},"modified":"2025-04-29T01:35:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T06:35:22","slug":"fast-reveals-new-millisecond-pulsar-missed-by-earlier-surveys-due-to-signal-overlap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/fast-reveals-new-millisecond-pulsar-missed-by-earlier-surveys-due-to-signal-overlap","title":{"rendered":"FAST reveals new millisecond pulsar missed by earlier surveys due to signal overlap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fast-reveals-new-millisecond-pulsar-missed-by-earlier-surveys-due-to-signal-overlap2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), Chinese astronomers have discovered a new millisecond pulsar. The newfound pulsar, designated PSR J2129-1210O, was missed by previous searches as its spin period is close to the harmonics of the known pulsar PSR J2129+1210A.<\/p>\n<p>The finding was reported in a <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2504.16872\" target=\"_blank\">paper<\/a> published April 23 on the <i>arXiv<\/i> 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).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), Chinese astronomers have discovered a new millisecond pulsar. The newfound pulsar, designated PSR J2129-1210O, was missed by previous searches as its spin period is close to the harmonics of the known pulsar PSR J2129+1210A. The finding was reported in a paper published April 23 on the arXiv [\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-212695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212695","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=212695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}