Search for X-Ray Jets from a Millisecond Pulsar

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Sep 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004cxo..prop.1869c&link_type=abstract

Chandra Proposal ID #06408216

Physics

Chandra Proposal Id #06408216

Scientific paper

The nearby (2.5 kpc) millisecond X-ray pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658 is in outburst as of June 1 (ATEL 505). In its 1998 outburst, the source showed both radio emission and an infrared excess about 15-20 days after the outburst peak, suggestive of synchrotron emission from a jet (Wang et al. 2001, ApJ, 563, L61). Very few NS jet sources are known (Sco X-1, as well as SS433 and Cir X-1 if they are NSs), and this source provides the first opportunity to link jet emission to a pulsar with known magnetic field strength. At a source distance of only 2.5 kpc (in't Zand et al. 2001, A&A, 372, 916), the HRC angular resolution of 0.4 arcsec corresponds to a separation of 6 light-days at the pulsar, providing excellent angular sensitivity to a relativistic ejection.

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