In a First, Neutron Star Bursts as Models Predicted

摘要

Astronomers using NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) satellite have detected what they say is the first neutron star to burst the way that models predict. "Since the late 1970s, we mostly saw burst at low mass-accretion rates, and little or no bursts at high-mass accretion rates," Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researcher Manuel Linares said in a press release previewing a paper he co-wrote for the March 20 issue of The Astrophysical Jmirnal "It should be happening, but for three decades, we didn't see it. That's the puzzle."