Studies of Neutron Stars at Optical/IR Wavelengths
Astrophysics
2008-11-26 v1
Abstract
In the last years, optical studies of Isolated Neutron Stars (INSs) have expanded from the more classical rotation-powered ones to other categories, like the Anomalous X-ray Pulsars (AXPs) and the Soft Gamma-ray Repeaters (SGRs), which make up the class of the magnetars, the radio-quiet INSs with X-ray thermal emission and, more recently, the enigmatic Compact Central Objects (CCOs) in supernova remnants. Apart from 10 rotation-powered pulsars, so far optical/IR counterparts have been found for 5 magnetars and for 4 INSs. In this work we present some of the latest observational results obtained from optical/IR observations of different types of INSs.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0608025,
title = {Studies of Neutron Stars at Optical/IR Wavelengths},
author = {R. P. Mignani and S. Bagnulo and A. De Luca and G. L. Israel and G. Lo Curto and C. Motch and R. Perna and N. Rea and R. Turolla and S. Zane},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0608025},
year = {2008}
}
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8 pages, 6 Postscript figures