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45: Biggest Neutron Star Ever!

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45: Biggest Neutron Star Ever!

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Syzygy is produced by Chris Stewart and co-hosted by Dr Emily Brunsden from the Department of Physics at the University of York.

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Things we talked about in this episode:

The Nature Astronomy paper

NASA’s site on neutron stars, pulsars and magnetars

Video on white dwarf stars by Kurzgesagt

Electron degeneracy

Chandrasekhar and his Limit

The 100m Greenbank Radio Observatory

Degenerate matter

Jocelyn Bell Burnell and LGM-1

Neutron star limit, known as the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff limit

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00:00:00Opening Theme
00:00:19Big neutron star is biggest?
00:03:26White Dwarfs and Neutron Stars
00:08:52Electron degeneracy FTW
00:10:42The Chandrasekhar Limit
00:16:15A big ball of neutrons
00:20:14Even neutron stars have their limits ...
00:22:19LIGO's neutron star mergers
00:23:48Crazy energetic spinning balls of neutrons
00:25:30Everyone do the Pulsar Dance!
00:27:20As discovered by Jocelyn Bell Burnell
00:28:34Pulsars are magnetic monsters
00:30:59Introducing PSR J0740+6620
00:37:03A pulsar at the limit
00:38:55A great day to be an astronomer at Greenbank
00:39:45OK, but ... so what?
00:41:05Physics still applies
00:44:01Closing remarks

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