The 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics went to a pair of scientists who showed that a star of this type in a binary system had an orbit that was decaying due to its emission of gravitational waves.
The 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics went to a pair of scientists who showed that a star of this type in a binary system had an orbit that was decaying due to its emission of gravitational waves. The "recycled" variety of these objects are thought to have been "spun up" through accretion from a binary. The first extrasolar planets ever discovered were found orbiting one of these stars, which eventually reach a (*) "death line." The Hulse-Taylor binary system contains a neutron star and one of these stars, whose "millisecond" variety have a very short period. They were first observed by Antony Hewish and Jocelyn Bell, who initially called them "little green men." For 10 points, name these rapidly rotating neutron stars that emit X-ray radiation from their poles.
The 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics went to a pair of scientists who showed that a star of this type in a binary system had an orbit that was decaying due to its emission of gravitational waves.
pulsars [prompt on neutron stars] 