Theorists Offer Explanation For Pulsar Speeding Up Available to Purchase

Why did the 89‐millisec period of the Vela pulsar, PSR 0833‐45, abruptly decrease by 208 nanosec (sometime between 24 February and 3 March)? Theorists have risen to the challenge of explaining the observation made by Philip Reichley and George Downs (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) and independently by V. Radhakrishnan and R. N. Manchester (CSIRO).