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    Neutron star (redirect from Neutron stars)
    core of a massive supergiant star. The stars that later collapse into neutron stars have a total mass of between 10 and 25 solar masses (M☉), possibly more...
    110 KB (13,299 words) - 13:20, 11 May 2024
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    of the spectrum, particularly X-rays and gamma rays. Most detected neutron stars are pulsars, and emit radio-frequency electromagnetic radiation. About...
    9 KB (1,046 words) - 19:40, 5 April 2024
  • matter consisting of free quarks. Some massive stars collapse to form neutron stars at the end of their life cycle, as has been both observed and explained...
    25 KB (3,054 words) - 04:25, 1 April 2024
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    A neutron star merger is the stellar collision of neutron stars. When two neutron stars fall into mutual orbit, they gradually spiral inward due to gravitational...
    21 KB (2,193 words) - 18:16, 10 May 2024
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    both electromagnetic and gravitational radiation, the collision of two neutron stars, a discovery given the Breakthrough of the Year award for 2017 by the...
    18 KB (1,599 words) - 07:50, 7 May 2024
  • Timeline of neutron stars, pulsars, supernovae, and white dwarfs Note that this list is mainly about the development of knowledge, but also about some...
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    Gravitational collapse (category Neutron stars)
    Neutron stars are formed by the gravitational collapse of the cores of larger stars. They are the remnant of supernova types Ib, Ic, and II. Neutron stars...
    13 KB (1,621 words) - 21:01, 15 April 2024
  • compact object (or compact star) refers collectively to white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes. It could also include exotic stars if such hypothetical...
    20 KB (2,582 words) - 04:27, 7 April 2024
  • Tolman–Oppenheimer–Volkoff limit (category Neutron stars)
    (or TOV limit) is an upper bound to the mass of cold, non-rotating neutron stars, analogous to the Chandrasekhar limit for white dwarf stars. Stars more...
    49 KB (4,292 words) - 13:53, 10 May 2024
  • Blitzar (category Neutron stars)
    Rezzolla (2014). "Fast radio bursts: The last sign of supramassive neutron stars". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 562: A137. arXiv:1307.1409. Bibcode:2014A&A...
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    gravitational, electromagnetic, and nuclear physics environments embodied by neutron stars, exploring the exotic states of matter where density and pressure are...
    14 KB (1,278 words) - 19:06, 27 December 2023
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    commonly connected with compact central objects such as black holes, neutron stars or pulsars. One explanation is that tangled magnetic fields are organised...
    16 KB (1,684 words) - 11:00, 12 April 2024
  • or "dead", with fusion no longer taking place. White dwarf stars, neutron stars, black holes, main sequence stars, giant stars, and supergiants are...
    16 KB (1,710 words) - 20:05, 7 May 2024
  • resembling the neutron-degenerate matter theorized to exist in the cores of neutron stars; hereinafter "degenerate neutronium" will refer to this. Neutronium...
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    GW170817 (category Neutron stars)
    produced by the last moments of the inspiral process of a binary pair of neutron stars, ending with their merger. It is the first GW observation that has been...
    102 KB (5,945 words) - 20:45, 3 May 2024
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    Habitability of neutron star systems (category Neutron stars)
    and compare it with other pulsars. The ALMA telescope of the European Southern Observatory would be able to show dust discs around neutron stars. v t e...
    4 KB (432 words) - 04:41, 6 May 2024
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    Kilonova (category Neutron stars)
    astronomical event that occurs in a compact binary system when two neutron stars or a neutron star and a black hole merge. These mergers are thought...
    22 KB (2,193 words) - 00:07, 9 May 2024
  • 3XMM J004232.1+411314 (category Neutron stars)
    3XMM J004232.1+411314 is a low-mass X-ray binary hosted in the galaxy M31. It is the most luminous source of hard X-rays in the Andromeda Galaxy. It is...
    5 KB (603 words) - 06:11, 28 November 2023
  • as strange quark matter might form and remain stable at the core of neutron stars, in the same way as ordinary quark matter could. Such strange stars...
    12 KB (1,410 words) - 15:09, 6 May 2024
  • cooling neutron stars at a distance of 120 to 500 parsecs from Earth. These objects are also known under the names XDINS (X-ray Dim Isolated Neutron Stars) or...
    16 KB (1,919 words) - 20:19, 4 May 2023
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