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• ITMO Scientists Step Closer to Explaining How Pulsar Nebulas Form

  Researchers from ITMO University investigated how twisted electrons absorb photons in a strong magnetic field. This often occurs in pulsar nebulas that accompany neutron stars and consist of electrons and positrons. Given that the phenomena cannot be studied empirically, theoretical estimations remain one of the key approaches for illustrating what is happening with space objects at the particle level. The findings were published in The European Physical Journal C.

  05.02.2025

• Physicists Propose New Mechanism of Radio Emission in Neutron Stars

  Young scientists from ITMO University have explained how neutron stars generate intense directed radio emission. They developed a model based on the transitions of particles between gravitational states, i.e. quantum states in gravitational field. The researchers were the first to describe such states for electrons on the surface of neutron stars. Physical parameters obtained with the developed model are consistent with real experimental observations. The results are published in The Astrophysical Journal.

  12.04.2018