Pulsars/neutron stars?

[dhm794]

Is it possible to create a pulsar? (a neutron star that rotates extremely fast and sends out light in a "lighthouse" fashion).  I've tried taking a star of neutron-star mass and making the diameter that of a typical neutron star, but it doesn't rotate at all.

[smjjames]

Maybe it's rotating so fast that your eye just thinks it's not rotating? Those things have milisecond/microsecond rotations. There may also be a bug involving rotation and stars.

As for a pulsar, I did make a neutron star once, but I have no idea about the jets of photons that make a pulsar a pulsar.

[FiahOwl]

Is it possible to create a pulsar? (a neutron star that rotates extremely fast and sends out light in a "lighthouse" fashion).  I've tried taking a star of neutron-star mass and making the diameter that of a typical neutron star, but it doesn't rotate at all.

You need to set the rotation speed of the neutron star.

[dhm794]

Ah... I just realized you can set the rotation.  Anyways, do you think it's possible to make it emit light the way a pulsar does?

[vh]

if you did a binary star; one dense star and one very "undense" star, you could do soemthing with the light and pulsing.

[smjjames]

I know mudkipz did something similar with a black hole and jets, but I'm not sure if it's the effect you want.

if you did a binary star; one dense star and one very "undense" star, you could do soemthing with the light and pulsing.

Eclipsing isn't the same thing as pulsing.

[FiahOwl]

Ah... I just realized you can set the rotation.  Anyways, do you think it's possible to make it emit light the way a pulsar does?

Not possible currently.

[vh]

ok...but you can make it visually pulse anyway.

I know mudkipz did something similar with a black hole and jets, but I'm not sure if it's the effect you want.

if you did a binary star; one dense star and one very "undense" star, you could do soemthing with the light and pulsing.

Eclipsing isn't the same thing as pulsing.

[dhm794]

Ah... I just realized you can set the rotation.  Anyways, do you think it's possible to make it emit light the way a pulsar does?

Not possible currently.

Yeah, I was asking the programmers specifically if it's even possible to do this at all (not in the current version).

[FiahOwl]

Ah, I get it.