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  2. PSR J1311–3430 - Wikipedia

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    PSR J1311–3430 is a pulsar with a spin period of 2.5 milliseconds. It is the first millisecond pulsar found via gamma-ray pulsations. The source was originally identified by the Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope as a bright gamma ray source, but was not recognized as a pulsar until observations with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope discovered pulsed gamma ray emission.

  3. Particular values of the gamma function - Wikipedia

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    The gamma function is an important special function in mathematics. Its particular values can be expressed in closed form for integer and half-integer arguments, but no simple expressions are known for the values at rational points in general. Other fractional arguments can be approximated through efficient infinite products, infinite series ...

  4. Gamma Centauri - Wikipedia

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    Gamma Centauri, Latinized from γ Centauri, is a binary star system in the southern constellation of Centaurus. It has the proper name Muhlifain , [ 10 ] not to be confused with Muliphein, which is γ Canis Majoris ; both names derive from the same Arabic root.

  5. Centaurus A - Wikipedia

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    In 1975–76 gamma-ray emissions from Centaurus A were observed through the atmospheric Cherenkov technique. [25] The Einstein Observatory detected an X-ray jet emanating from the nucleus in 1979. [26] Ten years later, young blue stars were found along the central dust band with the Hubble Space Telescope. [27]

  6. Lanczos approximation - Wikipedia

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    Thus computing the gamma function becomes a matter of evaluating only a small number of elementary functions and multiplying by stored constants. The Lanczos approximation was popularized by Numerical Recipes , according to which computing the gamma function becomes "not much more difficult than other built-in functions that we take for granted ...

  7. Gyromagnetic ratio - Wikipedia

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    In physics, the gyromagnetic ratio (also sometimes known as the magnetogyric ratio [1] in other disciplines) of a particle or system is the ratio of its magnetic moment to its angular momentum, and it is often denoted by the symbol γ, gamma.

  8. Hankel contour - Wikipedia

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    The Gamma function can be defined for any complex value in the plane if we evaluate the integral along the Hankel contour. The Hankel contour is especially useful for expressing the Gamma function for any complex value because the end points of the contour vanish, and thus allows the fundamental property of the Gamma function to be satisfied ...

  9. Brillouin zone - Wikipedia

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    In general, the n-th Brillouin zone consists of the set of points that can be reached from the origin by crossing exactly n − 1 distinct Bragg planes. A related concept is that of the irreducible Brillouin zone , which is the first Brillouin zone reduced by all of the symmetries in the point group of the lattice (point group of the crystal).