MPI for Gravitational PhysicsTen new neutron stars for Terzan 5
An international team led by researchers from the @mpi_grav and @MPIfR_Bonn and the NSF National Radio Astronomy Observatory has discovered and studied ten rare, unusual, and rapidly rotating neutron stars in the dense stellar cluster. They used the SARAO's MeerKAT and the NSF Green Bank Telescope.
More about “spider” pulsars, double neutron stars, and close encounters in our press release 👇
📄 https://www.aei.mpg.de/1167519/ten-new-neutron-stars-for-terzan-5
Ten new neutron stars for Terzan 5
An international team led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute; AEI), the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR), and the U.S. National Science Foundation National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) has discovered ten rapidly rotating neutron stars in the globular cluster Terzan 5. Many of them are in unusual and rare binaries, including a potential candidate for a record-breaking double neutron star, a pulsar in an extremely elliptical orbit, and several “spider” systems in which the neutron stars are evaporating their companions.