The Next Geminga: Taking the Pulse of the EGRET Source 3EG J1835+5918

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Sep 2003

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Chandra Proposal ID #05500106

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Chandra Proposal Id #05500106

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3EG J1835+5918 is the brightest of the so-called unidentified EGRET sources at high Galactic latitude, (l,b)=(89,+25). We obtained Chandra, HST, and radio observations that definitively demonstrate the presence of an isolated, radio-quiet neutron star in the error box that is the only plausible identification of the EGRET source. 3EG J1835+5918 may thus be the prototype of an hypothesized population of older pulsars, born in the Gould belt, that can account for as many as 40 local EGRET sources. This proposal offers the possible culmination of the search for this, the next "Geminga", by discovering its pulsations, which is necessary to determine its age and energetics, as well as to prove the identification with the gamma-ray source.

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