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  2. PSR J1748−2446ad - Wikipedia

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    PSR J1748−2446ad is the fastest-spinning pulsar known, at 716 Hz (times per second), [2] or 42,960 revolutions per minute.This pulsar was discovered by Jason W. T. Hessels of McGill University on November 10, 2004, and confirmed on January 8, 2005.

  3. Millisecond pulsar - Wikipedia

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    Spinning roughly 641 times per second, it remains the second fastest-spinning millisecond pulsar of the approximately 200 that have been discovered. [7] Pulsar PSR J1748-2446ad, discovered in 2004, is the fastest-spinning pulsar known, as of 2023, spinning 716 times per second. [8] [9]

  4. List of most massive neutron stars - Wikipedia

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    Fastest spinning galactic pulsar. [7] PSR J1311–3430: 2.15–2.7: 6,500–12,700: Substellar object: Spectroscopic and photometric observation. Black widow pulsar ...

  5. NGC 6624 - Wikipedia

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    The neutron star is tied with PSR J1748−2446ad as the fastest rotating pulsar known, both making 716 revolutions per second. NGC 6624 is a globular cluster in the constellation Sagittarius. It was discovered on 24 June 1784 by the astronomer William Herschel. It is given an apparent magnitude of 7.6 to 8.5. [4] Six pulsars are known in NGC ...

  6. Scientists Just Solved the Mystery Behind This Strange ...

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    The pace could be caused by a flashing magnetic field rather than pulsar rotation alone. Pulsars and “long-period radio transients” can pulse anywhere between once every 10 seconds and once ...

  7. Pulsar - Wikipedia

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    X-ray pulsar-based navigation and timing (XNAV) or simply pulsar navigation is a navigation technique whereby the periodic X-ray signals emitted from pulsars are used to determine the location of a vehicle, such as a spacecraft in deep space. A vehicle using XNAV would compare received X-ray signals with a database of known pulsar frequencies ...

  8. PSR J0952–0607 - Wikipedia

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    PSR J0952–0607 is a massive millisecond pulsar in a binary system, located between 3,200–5,700 light-years (970–1,740 pc) from Earth in the constellation Sextans. [6] It holds the record for being the most massive neutron star known as of 2022, with a mass 2.35 ± 0.17 times that of the Sun—potentially close to the Tolman–Oppenheimer–Volkoff mass upper limit for neutron stars.

  9. PSR J0002+6216 - Wikipedia

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    PSR J0002+6216, also dubbed the Cannonball Pulsar, is a pulsar discovered by the Einstein@Home project in 2017. [2] It is one of the fastest moving pulsars known, and has moved 53 ly (5.0 × 10 14 km; 3.1 × 10 14 mi) away from the location of its formation supernova, where the remaining supernova nebula, CTB 1 (Abell 85 [3]), is.