Original story on Wilson-Hodge's discovery. Other news from the 5th Compton Symposium includes a new gamma-ray catalog of the universe and a method of weighing black holes. Things that go bump in the night . Jan. 21, 1998. Team finds that pulsars get wound up - and down.
Astronomers discover bursting pulsar .
May 23, 1996. Return of the bursting pulsar - June 1996. An unusual x-ray pulsar bursts, pulses, and puzzles astronomers. The Astrophysical Journal on-line. In the weaker outbursts, where the period change is smaller, the observed period decrease may be, produced by the neutron star moving toward us in its orbit or it may be due to matter being dumped from the companion.