Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1998-12-10
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
4 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics Letters
Scientific paper
Integrated ground-based and HST optical studies of isolated neutron stars have provided important independent datasets in the determination of emission activity, particularly in the fitting of anticipated Rayleigh-Jeans extrapolations from EUV/soft X-ray datasets, despite their intrinsic faintness. Differentiation of the pulsed and unpulsed fluxes and consequently of the nonthermal and thermal modes of emission could provide definitive data with which to constrain this blackbody continuum. Based upon high speed photometric observations of Geminga and PSR B0656+14 in the B band, we have combined upper limits of unpulsed emission with recently published model-fits with a view to assessing possible implications for the R/d parameter. For Geminga, with a known distance of ~ 160 pc, we find that R_{infty} < 9.5 km for a ~ blackbody source, and R_{\infty} < 10.0 km with the presence of a magnetized H atmosphere. In addition, we suggest that PSR B0656+14 is some ~ 4 - 5 times closer than the 760 pc estimated from DM measurements alone.
Golden Aaron
Shearer Andrew
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