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Theorists Offer Explanation For Pulsar Speeding Up

JUL 01, 1969

DOI: 10.1063/1.3035678

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Why did the 89‐millisec period of the Vela pulsar, PSR 0833‐45, abruptly decrease by 208 nanosec (sometime between 24 February and 3 March)? Theorists have risen to the challenge of explaining the observation made by Philip Reichley and George Downs (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) and independently by V. Radhakrishnan and R. N. Manchester (CSIRO).

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Volume 22, Number 7

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