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Published July 30, 1987 | Version public
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The discovery of a millisecond pulsar in the globular cluster M28

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  • 1. ROR icon University of Manchester
  • 2. ROR icon Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • 3. ROR icon California Institute of Technology
  • 4. ROR icon University of California, Berkeley

Abstract

Here we report the discovery of a pulsar with a 3 millisecond period in the core of the globular cluster M28. The existence of a millisecond pulsar in such a cluster, where there are frequent interactions between cluster stars, provides strong confirmation of the theory that the high rotation rate derives from accretion in a binary system. The pulsar is now isolated, having no binary companion.

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© 1987 Nature Publishing Group. Received 24 June; accepted 2 July 1987.

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