Implications of the Optical Observations of Isolated Neutron Stars
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
Observations of the 5 confirmed optical pulsars indicate that the peak emission scales according to the outer field strength. We show that this gives gives further confirmation that a simple phenomenological models such as Pacini and Salvati (1987) still have validity. Furthermore we show that the Crab pulsar exhibits unpulsed emission which further complicates any studies of the thermal emission from Isolated Neutron Stars.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9912057,
title = {Implications of the Optical Observations of Isolated Neutron Stars},
author = {Andy Shearer and Aaron Golden and Gregory Beskin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9912057},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
4 pages, 3 figures, to appear in the Proceedings of IAU Colloquium 177 : "Pulsar Astronomy - 2000 & Beyond", Ed. Kramer, Wex & Wielebinski, ASP conf.Series. Uses newpasp.sty