The reason I am excited about these is because we don't know what they are as yet! Pulsars have periods that are much smaller (faster rotators) than these things. So we are seeing a new population of slower rotators emerging. Read more about it here: www.spaceaustralia.com/index.php/fe...

Also chatted with @stilgherrian.comstilgherrian.com/edict/00228/

Forgive my ignorance, but wouldn't pulsar rotation decay over time, maybe millions of years? Shouldn't we expect to see many more slow pulsars since they could only slow down and never speed up?