Crab pulsar beams most energetic gamma rays ever detected from a pulsar

Thursday, October 6, 2011 - 14:30 in Astronomy & Space

Astrophysicists have detected pulsed gamma-ray emission from the Crab pulsar at energies far beyond what current theoretical models of pulsars can explain. With energies exceeding 100 billion electron-volts (100 GeV), the surprising gamma-ray pulses were detected by the VERITAS telescope array.

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