Astrophysical fluid dynamics she pulls in her arms. These stars gradually slow down over the eons, but those bodies that are still spinning rapidly may emit radiation that from Earth appears to blink on and off as the star spins, like the beam of light from a turning lighthouse. This "pulsing" appearance gives some neutron stars the name pulsars. After spinning for several million years pulsars are drained of their energy and become normal neutron stars. Few of the known existing neutron stars are pulsars. Only about 1,000 pulsars are known to exist, though there may be hundreds of millions of old neutron
Laser beam quality as shown in the figure. However, when a multimode beam is focused, Equation (3) becomes M cannot be determined from a single beam profile measurement. The ISO/DIS 11146 define that M should be calculated from a series of measurements as shown in the figure below. M is measured on real beams by focusing the beam with a fixed position lens of known focal length, and then measuring the characteristics of the beam waist and divergence. These measurements can be taken with a laser beam profiler. The multiple measurements ensure that the minimum beam diameter is found and enable a "curve