Short description: Astronomical objects
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Neutron stars are the collapsed cores of supergiant stars.[1] They are created as a result of supernovas and gravitational collapse,[2] and are the second smallest and densest class of stellar objects.[3] In the cores of these stars, protons and electrons combine to form neutrons.[2] Neutron stars can be classified as pulsars if they are magnetized, if they rotate, and if they emit beams of electromagnetic radiation out of their magnetic poles.[4]
Neutron stars
Pulsars
- Radio pulsar
- Recycled pulsar PSR B1937+21
- Low mass X-ray pulsar (LMXP)
- Accretion-powered pulsar
Anomalous X-ray pulsars
Binary star systems
Related objects
See also
References
- ↑ Heger, A.; Fryer, C. L.; Woosley, S. E.; Langer, N.; Hartmann, D. H. (2003). "How Massive Single Stars End Their Life". Astrophysical Journal 591 (1): 288–300. doi:10.1086/375341. Bibcode: 2003ApJ...591..288H.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Imagine the Universe!: Neutron Stars". 23 September 2023. https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/objects/neutron_stars1.html#:~:text=Neutron%20stars%20are%20formed%20when,and%20electron%20into%20a%20neutron..
- ↑ Glendenning, Norman K. (2012). Compact Stars: Nuclear Physics, Particle Physics and General Relativity (illustrated ed.). Springer Science & Business Media. p. 1. ISBN 978-1-4684-0491-3. https://books.google.com/books?id=cCDlBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1. Retrieved 2016-03-21.
- ↑ "NASA's NICER Delivers Best-ever Pulsar Measurements, 1st Surface Map". 11 December 2019. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/nasa-s-nicer-delivers-best-ever-pulsar-measurements-1st-surface-map.
- ↑ Hester, Jeff; Scowen, Paul (30 May 1996). "The Crab Nebula From the Ground (left) and Its Interior With Pulsar". https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/1996/22/427-Image.html#:~:text=At%20the%20center%20of%20the,more%20mass%20than%20our%20Sun..
- ↑ "PSR B1509-58: A Young Pulsar Shows its Hand". 3 April 2009. https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2009/b1509/.
- ↑ "Pulsar Planets". Archived from the original on 2005-12-30. https://web.archive.org/web/20051230112904/http://www.astro.psu.edu/users/alex/pulsar_planets.htm.
- ↑ Backer, D. C.; Kulkarni, S. R.; Heiles, C.; Davis, M. M. et al. (1982). "A millisecond pulsar". Nature 300 (5893): 315–318. doi:10.1038/300615a0. Bibcode: 1982Natur.300..615B.
- ↑ "PSR J0952-0607 -- Pulsar". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. https://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-id?Ident=PSR+J0952-0607. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
- ↑ Wall, Mike (25 October 2012). "Super-dense neutron star is fastest ever seen". Space.com. http://www.space.com/18218-fastest-orbiting-pulsar-neutron-star.html.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Tillman, Nola Taylor (August 25, 2011). "Surprise! Alien Planet Made of Diamond Discovered". Space.com. https://www.space.com/12731-diamond-alien-planet-discovered-neutron-star.html.
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