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Pulsars


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The Invisible Universe

Part of the book series: Astronomers' Universe ((ASTRONOM))

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The story of the discovery of pulsars is told and now binary and millisecond pulsars are used to test Einstein’s theories of relativity.

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  1. University of Memphis, 4124 11th Street North, Arlington, Virginia, 22201, USA

    Dr. Gerrit Verschuur

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Verschuur, G. (2015). Pulsars
. In: The Invisible Universe. Astronomers' Universe. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13422-2_8

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