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The Discovery of the First Millisecond Pulsar: Personal Recollections

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2024-10-29 v2 Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Abstract

This article provides a first-hand account of the 1982 Arecibo observations that led to the discovery of PSR B1937+21, the first-known millisecond pulsar. It is a companion paper to Demorest & Goss (2024) and Readhead (2024).

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@article{arxiv.2409.07540,
  title  = {The Discovery of the First Millisecond Pulsar: Personal Recollections},
  author = {S. R. Kulkarni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.07540},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

7 pages. Accepted by Journal of Astronomical History & Heritage