Observations of a pulsar, consisting of a dead star spinning 600 times a second, and feasting on a stellar companion reveal ...

Only a few dozen of these short-lived binaries exist in the galaxy at a time, making the serendipitous find extremely ...

As binary neutron stars inspiral for millions of years, they emit gravitational waves, but the most intense emission occurs at and just milliseconds after the moment of merging.

Astronomers have identified a rare type of binary star system containing a rapidly spinning millisecond pulsar and a helium star companion, formed via common envelope evolution. Although such ...

Binary neutron star mergers, cosmic collisions between two very dense stellar remnants made up predominantly of neutrons, have been the topic of numerous astrophysics studies due to their ...

You wait ages for a neutron star-normal star binary to turn up, then 21 arrive at once. Comments (1) When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

The neutron star featured in this latest paper is a pulsar, PSR J0952-0607—or J0952 for short—located in the constellation Sextans between 3,200 and 5,700 light-years away from Earth.

But in common envelope evolution, “the companion star is so large that its outer layers engulf the neutron star as well,” Lorimer said. “This acts as a brake on the whole binary system.” ...

Overall, the simulations performed by Müller, Heger and Powell suggest that the low-mass star in the binary system J0453 + 1559 could in fact be a neutron star.

The stripped star, in a binary system with a neutron star companion, starts out ten times more massive than our sun, but so dense it is smaller than the sun in diameter. The final stage in its ...

For many years, binary star research was as neglected as an old Tamagotchi. Not anymore. Some 90s trends have made very welcome comebacks; others, no one needs to see ever again. Unlike frosted ...

Neutrino Trapping and Out-of-Equilibrium Effects in Binary Neutron-Star Merger Remnants. Physical Review Letters , 2024; 132 (21) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.211001 Cite This Page : ...