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Jul 2007
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HST Proposal ID #11127. Cycle 16
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A compact X-ray source, showing nothing but steady unpulsed thermal emission, lies close to the center of the young and nearby supernova remnant dubbed "Vela Jr". It is a typical member of a class of enigmatic sources, supposed to be the youngest members of the radio-quiet neutron star family. Quite surprisingly, we discovered in ground-based optical observations a small Halpha nebula spatially coincident with the X-ray source. Such a nebula potentially carries very important information on the nature of the X-ray source, which remains elusive in spite of large observational efforts. We propose to use the WFPC2 to collect high resolution Halpha images of the nebula in order to resolve its structure, to understand its nature, and to identify its connection with the X-ray source. Addressing all these points will also have important implications for our interpretation of the compact X-ray source and on of other objects of the same class.;
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