1 | Like most astronomical sources, pulsars are named after their position in the sky. Those pulsars discovered
prior to the mid 1990s are named based on the Besselian equatorial coordinate system (B1950) and have a B
prefix followed by their right ascension and declination. More recently discovered pulsars follow the Julian
(J2000) epoch. Pulsars in globular clusters, where the positional designation is not unique, have additional
characters to distinguish them. For example PSR J1748–2446ad in the globular cluster
Terzan 5 [144![]() |
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2 | Pulsar astronomers usually define the luminosity ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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3 | The reader is encouraged to view the beautiful movies explaining the eclipse model [313] |
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