Secret of The Pulsars

Rich Levinson, developed this web site is to follow up on the work I did on X-ray pulsars between 1971 and 1973. That work included making the discoveries that both Cen X-3 and Her X-1 are members of close binary systems and their x-rays are fueled by interacting with the atmospheres of their respective companions.

In addition, Rich also discovered that unlike all the other isolated pulsars known at that time that had spin rates that are slowing down, the spin rates of the binary x-ray pulsars have spin rates that are actually speeding up.