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Science 28 April 2006:
Vol. 312. no. 5773, pp. 539 - 540
DOI: 10.1126/science.1125934
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ASTRONOMY:
Pulsar Magnetospheres and Pulsar Death

E. P. J. van den Heuvel

Rotating neutron stars, or pulsars, slow down with time. New observations of an unusual intermittent pulsar provide direct evidence that this slowing is partially caused by outflow of plasma.

The author is with the Anton Pannekoek Astronomical Institute and the Center for High Energy Astrophysics, University of Amsterdam, Kruislaan 403, 1098SJ Amsterdam, Netherlands and Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4030, USA. E-mail: edvdh{at}science.uva.nl

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