Optical, ultraviolet, and infrared observations of isolated neutron stars
Abstract
Forty years passed since the optical identification of the first isolated neutron star (INS), the Crab pulsar. 25 INSs have been now identified in the optical (O), near-ultraviolet (nUV), or near-infrared (nIR), hereafter UVOIR, including rotation-powered pulsars (RPPs), magnetars, and X-ray-dim INSs (XDINSs), while deep investigations have been carried out for compact central objects (CCOs), Rotating RAdio transients (RRATs), and high-magnetic field radio pulsars (HBRPs). In this review I describe the status of UVOIR observations of INSs, their emission properties, and I present the results from recent observations.
- Publication:
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Advances in Space Research
- Pub Date:
- April 2011
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0912.2931
- Bibcode:
- 2011AdSpR..47.1281M
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
- E-Print:
- 25 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in Advances in Space Research