Beamed radiation from rapidly spinning (periods ~ 1 - 100ms), highly magnetized (~ 1012 gauss fields) neutron stars, or pulsars, is notoriously difficult to find in 7-rays. First, one may have to wait > 10 minutes between photons even with a large gamma-ray telescope like CGRO-EGRET viewing a bright source like the Vela pulsar. Second, these 7-ray light-curves (brightness versus time or phase) are very sharply peaked. Current methods (Z%. -
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