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In this book, Duncan Lorimer reviews the techniques, results and open questions relating to the population of neutron stars as observed through their radio emission. Since their discovery in 1967, over 2000 radio pulsars have been found. The majority of these pulsars, rapidly spinning neutron stars, are found in the disk of the Milky Way, but a significant number are known in Galactic globular clusters and some are known in the Magellanic Clouds. Numerous research fields ranging from Galactic astrophysics, stellar evolution and gravitational wave astronomy, benefit from an understanding of the neutron star population, however the field itself is complex, with a rich body of literature over the past 40 years. The book aims to rapidly train beginning students, postdoctoral scholars and more senior scientists wishing to work in this field via succinct summaries of key results and concepts, sample research problems and exercises as well as compelling graphical information.

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Duncan Lorimer has studied, taught and conducted research in Europe and America and is now an associate professor and astronomer at West Virginia University with an interest in compact objects that he studies using radio pulsars. In 1995 he created a large database of pulsar data that has been used by astronomers from across the electromagnetic spectrum ever since and his pulsar data analysis code, and software to simulate pulsar populations have also been publically available for many years and extensively used.

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