{"id":10580,"date":"2011-12-21T03:00:51","date_gmt":"2011-12-21T08:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=10580"},"modified":"2011-12-21T03:00:51","modified_gmt":"2011-12-21T08:00:51","slug":"is-it-still-right-twice-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/10580","title":{"rendered":"Is it Still Right Twice a Day?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn21304-astrophile-stopped-clocks-deepen-pulsar-enigmas.html\">Astrophile: Stopped clocks deepen pulsar enigmas<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Some pulsars go dark, though, and Camilo&#8217;s was not the first. In the 1970s, some regular pulsars were spotted switching off for a few seconds to a few minutes, a phenomenon known as &#8220;nulling&#8221;. And in the past decade, a new class of pulsars has been found , in which the silences can range from minutes to a few hours. They were dubbed rotating radio transients, or RRATs. Around the same time, a pulsar was found that pulsed for about a week and then switched off for about a month before repeating the cycle.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are papers discussing the possibility that precession could cause this, i.e. the pulsar is still &#8220;on&#8221; but not pointing at us during the nulling interval, but I didn&#8217;t see that brought up in the article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astrophile: Stopped clocks deepen pulsar enigmas Some pulsars go dark, though, and Camilo&#8217;s was not the first. In the 1970s, some regular pulsars were spotted switching off for a few seconds to a few minutes, a phenomenon known as &#8220;nulling&#8221;. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/10580\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}