Geminga

Details Geminga Geminga

Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke4695.&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 4695. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Stars, Individual Stellar Objects

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A gamma-ray source in the constellation of Gemini, its name deriving from `Gemini gamma-ray source'. Located at a distance of about 300 light-years, Geminga is a pulsar with a period of 0.237 s and, as such, is one of the nearest known neutron stars. Its optical counterpart is a low-luminosity star of apparent magnitude 25 with an annual proper motion (angular motion across the sky) of about 0.2 ...

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