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English: Material accumulating on the pulsar surface can sometimes ignite, causing thermonuclear flashes that emit bursts of X-ray light. These thermonuclear flames spread across the surface of the pulsar in a few seconds. The team established that “burst oscillations”, a kind of flickering, during these X-ray bursts provide a direct measure of the pulsar's spin rate. This animation is a slow-motion depiction of a thermonuclear flash or X-ray burst spreading across a rotating pulsar. The pulsar would actually be rotating hundreds of revolutions per second |
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| Source | http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2003/0702pulsarspeed.html, http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a010100/a010144/index.html |
| Author | Dana Berry/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center |
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