[Aaron]

A brown dwarf?

[Rylkan]

Heck No.

And No.

[Ratty]

Doc?

Y'know, a white dwarf?

One of seven?

[Rylkan]

Ain't no Dwarf, ya Midget.

[Aaron]

I looked up the answer out of curiosity, but I won't post it for a couple days.

[Rylkan]

Pretty Interesting Stuff.

[skenasis]

Bloody hard to drive, I would think.

Really, I have no clue. That was just the first thing I thought when I read the question.

[Rylkan]

::tries to imagine driving a Recycled Pulsar::

...Ouch. Twould hurt....alot.

[Aaron]

A recycled pulsar is a pulsar with a rotational period in the range of about 1-10 milliseconds. It may be visible in the microwave or X-ray portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. Very interesting indeed.

[skenasis]

::tries to imagine driving a Recycled Pulsar::

...Ouch. Twould hurt....alot.

Are we even thinking of the same pulsar? 'Cos I'm think of the Nissan kind.

[Zoo]

A recycled pulsar is a pulsar with a rotational period in the range of about 1-10 milliseconds. It may be visible in the microwave or X-ray portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. Very interesting indeed.

Woah O_O. That's fast rotation O_O

[Rylkan]

I'll give it to Aaron, but there is one important fact you missed. It's a bit theoretical, well all Neutron stars are to some degree (We only see indirect, though very telling, evidence for them. But we cant really resolve them).

It's true that a Recycled Pulsar is a millisecond pulsar, but it's also interesting in that it's magnetic field is very weak. What that suggests is it's an old Neutron star that got spun up by accreting matter from a neighbor. So that means it went from being fast (a few second spin) with a VERY strong magnetic field (~10^12 Gauss, for compariosn the earths Magnetic field is about half a gauss), slowed down, then got spun up to such a ridiculously high speed again.

Neutron Stars are so awesome. I think they are what I will end up studying when I go to Graduate school and beyond. ><

[Aaron]

Wow, that's insane. How much time does it take for a pulsar to go through the "recycling" process?

Now for the other question: What North American bird is commonly known as the Sparrowhawk?

[Zoo]

American Kestrel

[Rylkan]

I'm not sure. I can think of lots of things that could effect the transfer of angular momentum in a system like that. I'd imagine it would have to be greater inflow of angular momentum then is lost to the material being sent out of the jets. But how much? I don't know. I'll ask my professor on Tuesday, his field of research is Neutron Stars.