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X-ray emission characteristics of pulsars and their nebulae

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Werner Becker*
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, Giessenbachstrasse 1, Postfach 1603, 85740 Garching, Germany

Abstract

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Recent X-ray observatories like ROSAT, ASCA, RXTE, BeppoSAX and Chandra have achieved important progress in neutron star and pulsar astronomy. The identification of Geminga as a rotation-powered pulsar, the discovery of X-ray emission from millisecond pulsars and the identification of cooling neutron stars are only few of the fascinating results. In the following I will give a brief review on the X-ray emission properties of rotation-powered pulsars and their wind nebulae.

Type
Part 5. High-Energy Observations
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2000

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