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Our project involves looking at pulsars that show strange behaviour. Instead of emitting continuously, these objects 'switch off' their radio emission for a long period of time, before switching back 'on' again for a short time. This quasi-periodic behaviour implies that many more such objects exist as they are extremely difficult to detect and confirm. Our study of this new class of radio sources has important implications for pulsar searches, population studies of neutron stars and their relation to supernova event rates.
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