Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: notesfiles Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hp-pcd!hp-dcd!hpfcrx!stroyan From: stroyan@hpfcrx.UUCP Newsgroups: net.astro Subject: Large sources of short period pulses Message-ID: <68800001@hpfcrx.UUCP> Date: Mon, 18-Jun-84 20:01:00 EDT Article-I.D.: hpfcrx.68800001 Posted: Mon Jun 18 20:01:00 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 22-Jun-84 20:50:10 EDT Lines: 23 Nf-ID: #N:hpfcrx:68800001:000:783 Nf-From: hpfcrx!stroyan Jun 18 16:01:00 1984 Regarding short period pulses from very large objects- Here is one mechanism that might produce short period oscillations from a very large source viewed from an arbitrary position. A large sphere of molecular particles is raised to a high energy state by some low level 'pump' mechanism. Perhaps an external radiation source or some uniform radioactive decay. A 'small' pulsating object at the center of the sphere emits photon pulses with a short period. The particles in the sphere then lase, amplifying the pulses, ***only along the photons paths of motion***. This provides a mechanism for producing very high energy pulses from a large 'engine', yet with a short period. Does anyone out there who care to say what's wrong with this picture? Mike Stroyan hpfcla!stroyan