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This activity asks students to analyze both the 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.
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Astronomy
- Stars
= Neutron Stars and White Dwarfs
- High School
- Lower Undergraduate
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= Laboratory
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Keywords:
explosion, lab, light curve, magnetic fields, neutron star, period of luminosity, project, pulsar, supernova, x-ray
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Metadata instance created January 20, 2004 by Patricia Monahan
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January 9, 2012 by Lyle Barbato
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(Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics, Greenbelt), WWW Document, (https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/xte/learning_center/xray_pulsar.html).
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Timing an X-ray Pulsar (Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics, Greenbelt), <https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/xte/learning_center/xray_pulsar.html>.
APA Format
Timing an X-ray Pulsar. (2002, December 16). Retrieved March 29, 2024, from Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics: https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/xte/learning_center/xray_pulsar.html
Chicago Format
Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics. Timing an X-ray Pulsar. Greenbelt: Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics, December 16, 2002. https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/xte/learning_center/xray_pulsar.html (accessed 29 March 2024).
MLA Format
Timing an X-ray Pulsar. Greenbelt: Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics. 16 Dec. 2002. 29 Mar. 2024 <https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/xte/learning_center/xray_pulsar.html>.
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@misc{ Title = {Timing an X-ray Pulsar}, Publisher = {Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics}, Volume = {2024}, Number = {29 March 2024}, Month = {December 16, 2002}, Year = {} }
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