Phase Resolved Spectroscopy of the VELA Pulsar

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Sep 2002

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Chandra Proposal ID #04500500

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Chandra Proposal Id #04500500

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The superb angular resolution of Chandra has allowed us to resolve the Vela pulsar from its pulsar-wind nebula and prove that the phase-integrated pulsar spectrum consists of a soft thermal component and a hard magnetospheric component. The energy-integrated light curve has at least three peaks per period, whose origin remains unclear. To constrain the properties of the superdense matter, infer the temperature and magnetic field distributions over the neutron star surface, and elucidate the mechanisms of the multiwavelength magnetospheric radiation, we propose an ACIS-S observation of the Vela pulsar. High-quality phase-resolved spectroscopy and energy-resolved timing of 200,000 pulsar photons will allow the first detailed comparison with the theoretical models.

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