Pulsars – Extreme Cosmic Lighthouses / Christo Venter
| dc.contributor.author | Venter, Christo | |
| dc.contributor.researchID | 12006653 - Venter, Christo | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-05-03T09:24:02Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-05-03T09:24:02Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Pulsars are ancient, fast-rotating, highly-magnetised neutron stars that radiate across the electromagnetic spectrum. New discoveries by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) in the gamma-ray band since 2008, combined with the quality of new multi-frequency data, have caused a revolution in the field of gamma-ray rotation-powered pulsars. There are still many unsolved mysteries regarding the magnetospheric conditions in these stars – even after 50 years of research! This paper will relate several thoughts surrounding this field from a personal perspective that has taken shape over the past 15 years. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10394/32307 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | North-West University (South Africa). Potchefstroom | en_US |
| dc.subject | Pulsars | en_US |
| dc.subject | Gamma rays | en_US |
| dc.title | Pulsars – Extreme Cosmic Lighthouses / Christo Venter | en_US |
| dc.type | Other | en_US |