Thanks to Citizen Scientists, A Radio-Quiet Neutron Star Was Discovered (1 of 2) (IMAGE)

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Thanks to Citizen Scientists, A Radio-Quiet Neutron Star Was Discovered (1 of 2)

Caption

The entire sky as seen by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and the two pulsars discovered by Einstein@Home that were now published. The field below each inset shows the pulsar name and some of its measured characteristics, as well as the measured gamma-ray pulsations and radio pulsations (if detected). The flags in the insets show the nationalities of the volunteers whose computers found the pulsars. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 28 February 2018, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by C.J. Clark at Albert-Einstein-Institut in Hannover, Germany, and colleagues was titled, "Einstein@Home discovers a radio-quiet gamma-ray millisecond pulsar."

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[Credit: Knispel/Clark/Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics/NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration]

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