Radio pulsars typically have short periods, less than 10 seconds, and accretion-powered pulsars have longer periods, up to 10,000 seconds. 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.