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pulsar

[ US /ˈpʊɫsɝ/ ]
[ UK /pˈʌlsɑː/ ]
NOUN
  1. a degenerate neutron star; small and extremely dense; rotates very fast and emits regular pulses of polarized radiation

How To Use pulsar In A Sentence

  • Subsequent timing observations have shown the pulsar to be in a 5.74-day circular orbit with a low-mass companion.
  • The "clocks" in question are actually millisecond pulsars – city-sized, sun-massed stars of ultradense matter that spin hundreds of times per second. New Pulsar "Clocks" Will Aid Gravitational Wave Detection | Universe Today
  • At si Hebraea voce loqueretur, frustra pulsaret sensum meum, nec inde mentem meam quidquam tangeret; si autem Latine, scirem quid diceret. Pneumatologia
  • Each had a Pulsarian engineer working its innards from beneath the craft.
  • 'Novi ego aliquem qui dormitabundus aliquando pulsari horam quartam audiverit, et sic numeravit, una, una, una, una; ac tum præ rei absurditate, quam anima concipiebat, exclamavit, Næ! delirat horologium! Literary Remains, Volume 1
  • As the pulsar rotates, this beam sweeps the sky a lighthouse beam sweeps around the horizon.
  • I read up on interstellar objects and astrophysics and studied quasars, pulsars and supernovas, but my main focus was black holes.
  • Some pulsars keep time better than the earth's most accurate clocks.
  • The wavelengths of the radio waves emitted by the pulsar are lengthened as a result of the effects of the gravitational field of the companion star (gravitational redshift).
  • A total of 112 pulse arrival times over a 120-day time interval were collected for this pulsar.
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