In article , Andrew Yee
wrote:

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First-Known Double Pulsar Opens Up New Astrophysics

An international team of scientists from the UK, Australia, Italy and the USA
have announced in today's issue of the journal Science Express (8th January
2004) the first discovery of a double pulsar system.

They have shown that the compact object orbiting the 23-millisecond
pulsar PSR
J0737-3039A with a period of just 2.4 hours is not only, as suspected,
another
neutron star but is also a detectable pulsar, PSR J0737-3039B, that is
rotating once every 2.8 seconds.

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This paper is available from arXiv, ( www.arXiv.org ),
it is number 0401086, "A Double-Pulsar System -...", Lyne,
Burgay, etal.

Dark Skies,

tom

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