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The Future X-ray Observations of Pulsars and Isolated Neutron Stars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Joachim Trümper*
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik

Abstract

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During the last decade the X-ray observations ROSAT and ASCA have made it possible to distinguish between photospheric (thermal) and (nonthermal) magnetospheric radiation of single neutron stars. The next generation of X-ray satellites (Chandra, XMM and Astro-E) and the follow-up mission Constellation and XEUS- will allow spectroscopic and timing studies with much higher sensitivity and resolution. Primary future goals are to determine the chemical composition of neutron star photospheres and to measure the gravitational redshift of spectral features.

Type
Part 11. The Future – Where to go?
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2000

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