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Pulsars Shed New Light on Evolution of Binary Stars

JAN 01, 1989

DOI: 10.1063/1.2810875

Per H. Andersen

Some 20 years after pulsars were discovered in 1967, there has been a new burst of findings on these rapidly rotating neutron stars. The companion of a recently discovered millisecond pulsar may be literally evaporating into interstellar space.

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Volume 42, Number 1

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