The VELA Pulsar

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Sep 1999

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999cxo..prop..265g&link_type=abstract

Chandra Proposal ID #01500073

Computer Science

Chandra Proposal Id #01500073

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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.

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