Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2003-09-11
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
7 pages. To appear in ASP conf. series "Future Directions in High Resolution Astronomy: The 10th Anniversary of the VLBA", J.
Scientific paper
Many features of the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) contrive to make it the best telescope for pulsar astrometry. The measured proper motions and parallaxes allow distances and transverse velocities to be determined. These in turn provide clues to questions spanning nuclear astrophysics on scales of 10^-23 m to the distribution of gas in the Galaxy on scales of 10^20 m. Three pulsars are discussed in this paper. Among pulsars, B0950+08 has the most accurate VLBI-determined parallax. B1133+16 has a very high transverse velocity; its radial velocity is discussed. B0656+14 is a thermally detected neutron star. Determination of its distance has allowed its radius to be measured and its association with the Monogem ring supernova remnant (SNR) to be established, allowing a long-standing question in cosmic ray astrophysics to be addressed.
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