Einstein@home Einstein@Home discovers first millisecond pulsar visible only in gamma rays

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#1 Einstein@home Einstein@Home discovers first millisecond pulsar visible only in gamma rays

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Einstein@Home has found two previously unknown rapidly rotating neutron stars in data from the Fermi gamma-ray space telescope. While all other such millisecond pulsars have also been observed with radio telescopes, one of the two discoveries is the first millisecond pulsar detectable solely through its pulsed gamma-ray emission.read more

SOURCE https://einsteinathome.org/content/eins ... gamma-rays
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