July 27, 2012

Artistic concept of a gamma-ray pulsar such as J1838-0537 (Image NASA/Fermi/Cruz de Wilde)

A group of researchers at the Max Planck Institutes for Gravitational Physics and Radio Astronomy, working with an international team, has discovered thanks to the Fermi Space Telescope a very special pulsar called J1838-0537. In fact, it emit only gamma rays and an anomaly in its rotation was detected.