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Pulsar Astrometry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

D. C. Backer
Affiliation:
Radio Astronomy Laboratory, Berkeley
R. A. Sramek
Affiliation:
National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro

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The 35-km interferometer at NRAO was used at 2.7 GHz during 1974–1979 to determine pulsar proper motions. Observations from each epoch were reduced to pseudo-position vector offsets which include both unknown, and constant, absolute position errors for the pulsars and their reference sources, as well as the time-varying proper motion of the pulsars. The coordinate system for which the errors in the offset components are independent is chosen. Proper motions resulting from a linear fit to the offsets for five pulsars are given in Table 1.

Type
III. Radio Observations of Pulsars
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1981 

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