PSR J2007+2722

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An isolated pulsar in Vulpecula, identified through Einstein@Home analysis.
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An isolated pulsar in Vulpecula, identified through Einstein@Home analysis.
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PSR J2007+2722 is an isolated pulsar in the constellation Vulpecula. It rotates at 40.82 hertz, with a period of 24.497 milliseconds, and lies 5.3 kiloparsecs from Earth in the plane of the Galaxy. It is considered most likely to be a disrupted recycled pulsar. The object was found in Arecibo radio telescope data taken in February 2007 and analyzed through the Einstein@Home distributed computing project.
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