A ROSAT view of neutron stars.
Abstract
Nearly 700 neutron stars are currently known as rotation-powered pulsars. In the course of the ROSAT mission, about 10% of them have been observed in detailed pointed observations, leading to the detection of pulsed X-ray emission from 11 of them while 11 more pulsars are identified only by positional coincidence with a radio pulsar. The collective X-ray emission properties of the ROSAT detected rotation-powered pulsars suggest that their X-ray emission characteristics depend mainly on their age.
- Publication:
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Roentgenstrahlung from the Universe
- Pub Date:
- February 1996
- Bibcode:
- 1996rftu.proc..103B
- Keywords:
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- Pulsars: X Rays;
- X-Ray Pulsars;
- X Rays: Neutron Stars