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This activity asks students to analyze both the x-ray light curve from a pulsar in the crab nebula and the Fourier Transform of the light curve. From this students must find the period of the light intensity, determine the period of rotation of the object, and realize the object is a neutron star.
<a href="http://www.compadre.org/astronomy/items/detail.cfm?ID=835">Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics. Timing an X-ray Pulsar. Greenbelt: Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics, December 16, 2002.</a>
Timing an X-ray Pulsar (Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics, Greenbelt), WWW Document, (http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/xte/learning_center/xray_pulsar.html).
Timing an X-ray Pulsar. (2002, December 16). Retrieved May 26, 2013, from Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics: http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/xte/learning_center/xray_pulsar.html
Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics. Timing an X-ray Pulsar. Greenbelt: Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics, December 16, 2002. http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/xte/learning_center/xray_pulsar.html (accessed 26 May 2013).
Timing an X-ray Pulsar. Greenbelt: Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics. 16 Dec. 2002. 26 May 2013 <http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/xte/learning_center/xray_pulsar.html>.
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Title = {Timing an X-ray Pulsar},
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Month = {December 16, 2002},
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