Bursting Pulsar
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Bursting Pulsar
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The Bursting Pulsar is a low-mass x-ray binary with a period of 11.8 days. It was discovered in December 1995 by the Burst and Transient Source Experiment on the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory, the second of the NASA Great Observatories. The pulsar is unique in that it has a "bursting phase" where it emits gamma rays and X-rays peaking at approximately 20 bursts per hour after which the frequency of bursts drops off and the pulsar enters a quiescent phase. After a few months, the bursts reappear,
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Star in the constellation Sagittarius
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bursting_Pulsar
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2023-12-22T17:27:58Z
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