IAU Symposium 337 was held at Jodrell Bank Observatory in September 2017 to celebrate the past fifty years of pulsar astrophysics and to look forward to the next fifty.
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S. Serrano Elorduy (CSIC-IEEC) / N. Rea (CSIC-IEEC) / ATNF Pulsar Catalogue / HI4PI Collaboration.
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The timeline of pulsar discoveries over the past 50 years, following searches of the radio to gamma-ray sky. Different colours represent the discovery date as reported in the ATNF Pulsar Catalogue (R. N. Manchester et al. Astron. J. 129, 1993–2006; 2005), spanning from PSR J1921+2153 in violet, the first radio pulsar discovered in 1967 (A. Hewish et al. Nature 217, 709–713; 1968) to PSR J2017+3625 in yellow, a gamma-ray pulsar discovered in Fermi LAT data by the Einstein@Home project (C. J. Clark et al. Astrophys. J. 834, 106; 2017). Credit: S. Serrano Elorduy (CSIC-IEEC) / N. Rea (CSIC-IEEC) / ATNF Pulsar Catalogue.
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Rea, N. Fifty years of pulsar astrophysics. Nat Astron 1, 829–830 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-017-0328-5
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