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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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<a href="https://www.compadre.org/portal/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>
AIP Format
(Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics, Greenbelt), WWW Document, (https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/xte/learning_center/xray_pulsar.html).
AJP/PRST-PER
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 May 1, 2025, 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 1 May 2025).
MLA Format
Timing an X-ray Pulsar. Greenbelt: Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics. 16 Dec. 2002. 1 May 2025 <https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/xte/learning_center/xray_pulsar.html>.
BibTeX Export Format
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Title = {Timing an X-ray Pulsar},
Publisher = {Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics},
Volume = {2025},
Number = {1 May 2025},
Month = {December 16, 2002},
Year = {}
}
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%T Timing an X-ray Pulsar %D December 16, 2002 %I Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics %C Greenbelt %U https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/xte/learning_center/xray_pulsar.html %O text/html
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%0 Electronic Source %D December 16, 2002 %T Timing an X-ray Pulsar %I Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics %V 2025 %N 1 May 2025 %8 December 16, 2002 %9 text/html %U https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/xte/learning_center/xray_pulsar.html Disclaimer: ComPADRE offers citation styles as a guide only. We cannot offer interpretations about citations as this is an automated procedure. Please refer to the style manuals in the Citation Source Information area for clarifications.
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