Scientists excited about new discovery.
There is an extremely rare class of stars by name millisecond pulsars, as only 18 of them have been discovered and each discovery offers very important data for the formation, evolution and behavior of these objects. Now, astronomers have discovered the MAXI J1816-195 inside our own galaxy, just 30,000 light-years away.
The X-ray emitted was detected by the Japanese JAXA on June 7 between the constellations of Sagittarius, Aspis and Ofis. Using the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, the exact location was determined, and then the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) came to analyze it.
The rare pulsar rotates 528.6 times per second with X-ray bursts coming from its poles at a rate of hundreds of bursts per second. The X-ray thermonuclear explosions detected by NICER result from the unstable nuclear reactions of the millisecond pulsar, due to the material collected by its adjacent star.
Observations at various light lengths are being continued by the Swift telescope and the data will be available soon. You can watch the astronomers’ effort at ATel.
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