PSR 1829-10
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PSR 1829-10 is a pulsar located in the Scutum Constellation. This pulsar has been the target of interest because of a mistaken identification of a planet around it. Andrew G. Lyne of the University of Manchester and Bailes claimed in July 1991 to have found “A planet orbiting the neutron star PSR1829-10”, Nature, 352, 311, but later retracted that in Nature, 355, 213, “No planet orbiting PSR 1829-10”, in 1992. They had failed to correctly take into account the ellipticity of Earth's orbit, and had incorrectly concluded that a planet with an orbital period of half a year existed around the pulsar.
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- [Nature vol.352 no.6333 : A planet orbiting the neutron star PSR1829–10]
- [Nature vol.352 no.6338 : The origin of the planet orbiting PSR1829 – 10]
- [Nature vol.353 no.6347 : Formation of a planet orbiting pulsar 1829–10 from the debris of a supernova explosion]
- [Nature vol.353 no.6347 : Creation by stellar ablation of the low-mass companion to pulsar 1829–10]
- [Nature vol.355 no.6357 : No planet orbiting PS R1829–10]
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