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robinn137

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What evidence do we have that pulsars are neutron stars?
 
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Acrux has an MV = 4.2 and an mV = 0.81 . Therefore, Acrux is actually brighter than we perceive it to be.
 
  a. True
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Answer to Question 1

Pulsars could not be ordinary stars. A normal star, even a small white dwarf, is much too big to pulse that fast. Nor could a star with a hot spot on its surface spin fast enough to produce the pulses. Even a small white dwarf would fly apart if it spun 30 times a second. The pulses last only about 0.001 second, placing an upper limit on the size of the object producing the pulse. If a white dwarf blinked on and then off in that interval, you would not see a 0.001-second pulse. That's because the point on the white dwarf closest to Earth would be about 6000 km closer to you, and light from that spot would arrive 0.02 s before the light from the bulk of the white dwarf. As a result its short blink would be smeared out into a longer pulse. Only a neutron star is small enough to be a pulsar.

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robinn137

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Reply 2 on: Jul 27, 2018
Excellent


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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Great answer, keep it coming :)

 

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