Talk:Pulsar planet

EM radiation
"Pulsar planets would be entirely incapable of supporting any form of life as we know it due to the colossal amounts of electromagnetic radiation emitted by pulsars." I think this line is poorly phrased: all radiation is electromagnetic radiation, including light, and pulsars put out a lot less total energy than, say, main-sequence stars. Perhaps the statements refers to very strong magnetic fields, or particles accelerated along those fields? --Keflavich 03:48, 23 May 2007 (UTC)


 * EM radiation isn't the only kind of radiation there is - the magnetically accelerated particles you're speaking of would be a good example of non-EM radiation. You are right, however, that the total energy output isn't the problem with pulsar planet habitability - it's the kinds of radiation emitted, such as x-rays and energetic subatomic particles, that are troublesome. Orcoteuthis (talk) 14:12, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't see a problem here. If a pulsar planet has an atmosphere dense enough, X-rays are absorbed in the upper layers of it and converted into light. This may give energy for a biosphere like ours. --Inmodus (talk) 14:42, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

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Questions worth asking
Whether to only use the NASA Exoplanet Archive, or whether to also include the Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 08:44, 25 March 2023 (UTC)


 * I'd generally consider NEA the better source of the two. In terms of pulsar planets, the main difference is that EPE includes many "black widow" systems (pulsars with former stellar companions eroded to substellar masses), with companion masses up to the brown dwarf range, while NEA only includes the two least massive such companions. SevenSpheres (talk) 15:38, 26 March 2023 (UTC)

GA nomination
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