Pulsar Spin

Pulsar Spin is how fast a newborn neutron star turns: a collapsing core keeps its angular momentum, so its period falls as the square of its radius, and a core turning once a day that shrinks to ten kilometres turns hundreds of times a second, sweeping its beams round the sky as a pulsar. The spin it keeps is the tidal spin every clump gathers, carried down to the smallest thing a star can leave. Formally, P_ns = P_c · (R_ns / R_c)², where P_ns [𝕋] is the neutron star's period, P_c [𝕋] the core's period before collapse, R_ns [𝕃] the neutron star's radius and R_c [𝕃] the core's radius: [𝕋] = [𝕋]. It connects to Giant Phase, Halo Spin Parameter and Stellar Null Well.

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Chapter: Chapter 2

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