SUMMARY OF SEQUENCE NUMBER 500014
SUMMARY OF SEQUENCE NUMBER 500014
Title: THE VELA PULSAR
Observer: FEIGELSON
Subject Category: SN, SNR, and isolated NS
Seq: 500014 ObsId: 00127
Long-term Plan bin: 24-Jan-2000
ABSTRACT
The pulsar PSR B0833-45 inside the Vela supernova remnant is the youngest and brightest source of thermal X-ray radiation from a neutron star. It thus provides an important laboratory for study of several expected components: continuous soft thermal X-ray emission from the cooling neutron star surface, pulsed hard thermal X-rays from the hot magnetic polar caps, and absorption features from the highly magnetized atmosphere. This observation will resolve the Vela pulsar from the surrounding synchrotron nebula, and give a high resolution spectrum that may reveal the chemical composition of its outer layers, its surface magnetic field, mass/radius ratio, and polar cap properties. The HRC detector is used to obtain spectra at different phases within the 89 ms rotational period.
TARGET SUMMARY
| TARGET NAME |
RA | DEC |
TIME |
SI |
GRAT |
TYPE |
TC |
ROLL |
PRE |
PHASE |
MULTI |
PRI |
| VELA PULSAR |
128.836250 | -45.176667 |
25.00000 |
HRC-S |
LETG |
GTO |
no |
yes |
no |
no |
no |
5 |
IMAGES
(NOTE: RASS images currently only available for targets LTS scheduled on or after Apr-09-2000)
PARAMETERS
Obscat Parameters
