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Ep. 158: Pulsars
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November 3rd, 2009 |
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Artist's illustration of a pulsar
Imagine an object with the mass of the Sun, crushed down to the size of Manhattan. Now set that object spinning hundreds of times a second, blasting out powerful beams of radiation like a lighthouse. That’s a pulsar, one of the most exotic objects in the Universe.
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Shownotes
- Pulsar Tutorial — Science@NASA
- Pulsars -- Goddard SFC
- Pulsars — UTK
- Neutron Stars VS. Pulsars
- Conservation of Angular Momentum — UTK
- Fast spinning pulsars (millisecond pulsars) –NRAO
- 1974 Nobel Prize in Physics to Antony Hewish for the discovery of pulsars
- Jocelyn Bell Burnell — UCLA
- 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics to Russell Hulse and Joseph Taylor for discovery of binary pulsars
- Gravitational Radiation – DrPhysics
- Crab Nebula Pulsar — SolStation
- Paper: Why Study Pulsars Optically; A. Shearer & A. Golden
- Planet Hunting – How Stuff Works
- Discovery of PSR1257+12 by Alexander Wolszczam and Dale Frail — Internet Ency. of Science
- Pulsar Planet Star System – Extrasolar Vision
- Pulsar 4U 0142+61 with protoplanetary disk — Spitzer
- Fastest Spinning Pulsar IGR J00291+5934 – Universe Today
- Magnetar — Wiki
- Magnetar that “blinded” satellites in 2004 — Space.com
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Another great episode. Pulsers are really incredible.
I’ve always thought it was pretty obnoxious that Jocelyn Bell Burnell didn’t get acknowledged for her participation in the discovery of pulsars. It’s kind of like Rosalind Franklin and the discovery of the structure of DNA—hugely important discovery, and the woman scientist gets left out. Ugh. At least we’ve started to level the playing field, but the Nobel committee tend to ignore women, especially if they were graduate students or postdocs under an advisor. As a professor, I find that fairly nauseating…