Radio telescope records a rare ‘glitch’ in a pulsar’s regular pulsing beat

On: April 12, 2018

Pulsars are rapidly rotating neutron stars and sometimes they abruptly increase their rotation rate. This sudden change of spin rate is called a “glitch” and I was part of a team that recorded one happening in the Vela Pulsar, with the results published today in Nature.

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