Pulsar studies with GRO-COMPTEL
Abstract
Pulsar measurements performed by the experiment COMPTEL, aboard the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, are described. The main results refer to the Crab and Vela pulsars whose pulse shape characteristics are given in some detail and light curves are compared with those above 50 MeV, as observed by the COS-B satellite. No other gamma-ray pulsars have been detected to date by COMPTEL, the upper limit on the pulsed signal from Geminga being compatible with indications by other experiments.
- Publication:
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Advances in Space Research
- Pub Date:
- December 1993
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0273-1177(93)90187-G
- Bibcode:
- 1993AdSpR..13l.727B
- Keywords:
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- Gamma Ray Astronomy;
- Light Curve;
- Pulsars;
- Statistical Analysis;
- Cos-B Satellite;
- Gamma Ray Observatory;
- Gamma Ray Telescopes;
- Astronomy