Kanpur, Feb. 25 -- Astrophysicists from the Department of Physics and SPASE at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics have developed a new method to estimate distances to stars that emit periodic radio flashes, such as pulsars.
The work has been reported in a recent paper titled "Probing the morphology of the Gum Nebula using pulsar observables and a novel distance estimation method", published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society by Oxford University Press.
The study was carried out by Dr Ashish Kumar, now at NCRA Pune, Prof Avinash A Deshpande, formerly of RRI Bengaluru, and Prof Pankaj Jain of IIT Kanpur.
Accurately measuring stellar distances has long been a fundam...