Neutron Star Astronomy in the era of the European Extremely Large Telescope

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2010-09-17

arxiv.org/abs/1009.3378v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

4 pages, to be published in Proceedings of the Conference "ASTROphysics of Neutron Stars 2010", a conference in honor of M. Al

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About 25 isolated neutron stars (INSs) are now detected in the optical domain, mainly thanks to the HST and to VLT-class telescopes. The European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) will yield ~100 new identifications, many of which from the follow-up of SKA, IXO, and Fermi observations. Moreover, the E-ELT will allow to carry out, on a much larger sample, INS observations which still challenge VLT-class telescopes, enabling studies on the structure and composition of the NS interior, of its atmosphere and magnetosphere, as well as to search for debris discs. In this contribution, I outline future perspectives for NS optical astronomy with the E-ELT.

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