Chapter 27:

Pulsars and Other Neutron Stars


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Pulsar Web sites

Steve Thorsett maintains an interesting pulsar web site.

Gravitational Waves On-Line (June 10)

The Laser Interferometric Gravitational Observatory (LIGO) at Caltech, the interferometer setup planned to study gravitational waves, has a homepage on line. It is a joint project of Caltech and MIT.

Pulsar Planets

Alex Wolszczan writes, as of 1/22/96, that there are still 3 planets around PSR B1257+12 with the indication that there may be a fourth, much more distant one. The distances and masses of the 3 planets are:

                Planet    Distance      Mass       Porb
                             AU        M(earth)   (days)

                   A        0.19        0.015      25.3
                   B        0.36        3.4        66.5
                   C        0.47        2.8        98.2

The most recent article on pulsar planets appeared in Science Magazine (Apr 22, 1994 issue). Planets graphics and animation are in his "pulsar" home page.


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