radio pulsar

C29548
concept

A radio pulsar is a rapidly rotating, highly magnetized neutron star that emits beams of radio waves from its magnetic poles, observed as periodic pulses when the beams sweep across Earth.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
pulsar 2
radio pulsar canonical 2

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: radio pulsar
Generated description
A radio pulsar is a rapidly rotating, highly magnetized neutron star that emits beams of radio waves from its magnetic poles, observed as periodic pulses when the beams sweep across Earth.

Instances (4)

Instance Via concept surface
first binary pulsar PSR B1913+16
surface form: PSR B1913+16
first millisecond pulsar PSR B1937+21
surface form: PSR B1937+21
Crab Nebula
surface form: Crab Pulsar
pulsar
M. M. Goss
surface form: PSR B1937+21
pulsar