Definitions for "Millisecond pulsar"
Keywords:  pulsar, thousandth, neutron, spin, psr
A pulsar whose period indicates that the neutron star is rotating nearly 1000 times each second. The most likely explanation for these rapid rotators is that the neutron star has been spun up by drawing in matter from a companion star.
A pulsar whose rotation period is measured in thousandths of a second.
a neutron star a stellar corpse after a star who have aged and consumed all the nuclear fuel which once made it shine