What Is the Cause of Millisecond Pulsars

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Multiple Choice

What is the cause of millisecond pulsars?

• A) As a pulsar cools, it collapses further. This causes its rotation rate to increase.
• B) Pulsars in binary systems can draw mass from the binary companion. This mass, impacting the pulsar's surface, causes its rotation rate to increase.
• C) The jets which radiate energy away from a pulsar cause it to become smaller and to rotate faster.
• D) The rotation period for most pulsars is actually less than a millisecond. So the natural slowing as it loses energy moves it into the millisecond range.

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Freud

Sigmund Freud, an Austrian neurologist who founded the discipline of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst.

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Freud

Sigmund Freud, an Austrian neurologist, established psychoanalysis as a method of treating mental disorders through conversations between a patient and a psychoanalyst.