Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2003-02-19
Astrophys.J.596:1137-1141,2003
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Corrected for some minor errors and referee's comments
Scientific paper
10.1086/378089
The Vela pulsar is the brightest pulsar at radio wavelengths. It was the object that told us (via its glitching) that pulsars were solid rotating bodies not oscillating ones. Along with the Crab pulsar is it the source of many of the models of pulsar behavior. Therefore it is of vital importance to know how far away it is, and its origin. The proper motion and parallax for the Vela pulsar have been derived from 2.3 and 8.4 GHz Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) observations. The data spans 6.8 years and consists of eleven epochs. We find a proper motion of $\mu_{\alpha {\rm cos}\delta}= -49.61 \pm 0.06, \mu_\delta= 29.8 \pm 0.1$ \myr and a parallax of $3.4 \pm 0.2$ mas, which is equivalent to a distance of $293_{-17}^{+19}$ pc. When we subtract out the galactic rotation and solar peculiar velocity we find $\mu_* = 45 \pm 1.3$ \myr with a position angle (PA) of $301^\circ\pm1.8$ which implies that the proper motion has a small but significant offset from the X-ray nebula's symmetry axis.
Dodson Richard
Legge David
McCulloch Peter M.
Reynolds John E.
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