Neutron Star, Pulsars, Millisecond Pulsars & Black Holes Astrophysics
Scott Ransom wins the American Astronomical Society's 2010 Helen B. Warner Prize. In this video, he describes how it feels to win this prestigious award and explains:
Credit: NRAO National Radio Astronomy Observatory
- What a Pulsar is
- What a Millisecond Pulsar is
- How the spin of Neutron Stars affects their Magnetic Fields
- His most recent research on pulsars
- How remote observations of pulsars are used as physics experiments
- General Relativity and its use in his pulsar research
- The states of nuclear matter and how his research is changing the theories governing them
- How his and his team are able to see the effects of gravity in their pulsar observations
- Black holes
- GUPPI, the cutting-edge pulsar timing instrument used in his award-winning research
- His career
Credit: NRAO National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Fuente: The NRAO
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