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Pulsars and their Genesis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2016

V. Radhakrishnan
V. Radhakrishnan*
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Raman Research Institute, Bangalore 560 080, India

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The subject I have chosen for my talk today will come of age on the last day of this General Assembly. The first detection of the remarkable objects that we call pulsars, was on 28th November 1967 when Jocelyn Bell (now Bell-Burnell) who was working with Prof. Hewish at Cambridge discovered a new class of radio sources that put out pulses of radio radiation about once a second but with clock-like regularity. Two other major discoveries in the same decade using the radio spectrum were, of course, Quasars and the Cosmic microwave background. Those two took us to extremes in time and distance, and the amount of energy radiated, whereas the discovery of pulsars, situated near at hand by comparison, led us to extremes in the physical state of matter.

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Highlights of Astronomy , Volume 7: Highlights of Astronomy. As presented at the XIXth General Assembly of the IAU, 1985 , 1986 , pp. 3 - 26
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Copyright © Reidel 1986

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