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What would cause a high redshift object to flicker with a period of 16 minutes, and what physical properties can be determined from this observation?

• For example: What is the maximum physical size of this object? How does it compare to the size of the Solar System? How do you work these things out?

• Answer:

  I can only guess that it might be a star with an object orbiting it that is very close to it, and thus has an extremely short orbital period (or year) of 16 minutes. If that is the case, then only other measurements would be able to tell me anything about its size, mass, and spectral radiation. It's redshift would tell how far from us it is. A high red shift would indicate that it's a very distant object. And the fact that we can detect the dimming produced when it is eclipsed by its orbiting object would suggest that the orbiting object itself must be quite large. If it had a pulse period measured in seconds rather than minutes, then I would conclude it is a pulsar, but the longest known pulsar period is 8.51 seconds. Pulsars are formed by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_star, objects that are incredibly dense and rotate at a very rapid and regular rate. Some pulsars flash with accuracy rivaling atomic clocks. For more on the properties of neutron stars and pulsars, see this.