Enhanced optical emission during crab giant radio pulses

Science

Volumn 301, Issue 5632, 2003, Pages 493-495

  Shearer, A ^a   Stappers, B ^b,c   O'Connor, P ^a   Golden, A ^a   Strom, R ^b,c   Redfern, M ^a   Ryan, O ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b ASTRON   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE; ELECTRONS; LIGHT EMISSION; PLASMAS; POSITRONS; RADIO WAVES;

PULSARS;

ASTROPHYSICS;

ELECTRON; RADIO WAVE;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTRON; LIGHT; MAGNETIC FIELD; OPTICS; POSITRON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA);

EID: 0042845881     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1084919     Document Type: Article

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27. We thank Enterprise Ireland for its support under the Basic Grant Research scheme. P.O.C. is grateful for support under the Higher Education Authority (HEA) -funded CosmoGrid project. The WHT is operated on the island of La Palma by the Isaac Newton Group in the Spanish Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias. The WSRT is operated by ASTRON (Netherlands Foundation for Research in Astronomy) with financial support from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). We thank M. Roberts from Jodrell Bank for the provision of the radio ephemeris (JBE), R. Butter for help in the production of this manuscript, and A. Boyle for help during the optical observations.