Using NASA's Fermi Space Telescope, Chinese astronomers explored the newly discovered
Pulsars are highly magnetized rotatingneutron stars emitting a beam of electromagnetic radiation. The fastest spinning pulsars with a spin period of less than 30 milliseconds are known as millisecond pulsars (MSPs). Astronomers theorize that they form in binary systems, when the initially more massive component turns into a neutron star. Then it spins up due to the accretion of matter from the secondary star.
PSR J1835−3259B is a newly discovered SMEin the globular cluster NGC 6652. Its rotation period is about 1.83 milliseconds. The pulsar is in a nearly circular orbit within the cluster. The distance to the SME is estimated to be approximately 32,600 light years.
Given that NGC 6652 exhibits detectablegamma ray, a team of astronomers from Yunnan University in Kunming, China, inspected PSR J1835−3259B. Scientists hoped to detect similar radiation from this pulsar. To do this, they analyzed data from the Fermi Large Telescope.
After analyzing various studies of sources in globular clusters, scientists realized that the observed gamma radiation in them could mainly originate from this MSP.
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