Radio and X-Ray Timing of Three Rotation-Powered Millisecond Pulsars
Abstract
We propose to make contemporaneous radio and X-ray timing observations of the three known rotation-powered millisecond pulsars that have hard spectra and narrow pulse profiles. These observations will allow us to align the radio and X-ray pulses with unprecedented accuracy and our multi-frequency radio observations will allow time variable dispersion measure corrections to be applied so that the extrapolation of the radio arrival times to infinite frequency will not be a source of error. This will allow us to characterize the long-term X-ray timing properties of these sources and better understand the relationship between the X-ray and radio emission sites and mechanisms.
- Publication:
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RXTE Proposal
- Pub Date:
- 2006
- Bibcode:
- 2006rxte.prop92008R