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Einstein@Home discovers a radio-quiet gamma-ray millisecond pulsar

de Palma, Francesco; Fusco, Piergiorgio; Gargano, Fabio +129 more

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are old neutron stars that spin hundreds of times per second and appear to pulsate as their emission beams cross our line of sight. To date, radio pulsations have been detected from all rotation-powered MSPs. In an attempt to discover radio-quiet gamma-ray MSPs, we used the aggregated power from the computers of tens of …