Revealing the X-ray emission processes of old rotation-powered pulsars: XMM-Newton observations of PSR B0950+08, PSR B0823+26, and PSR J2043+2740

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 615, Issue 2 I, 2004, Pages 908-920

  Becker, Werner ^a   Weisskopf, Martin C ^b   Tennant, Allyn F ^b   Jessner, Axel ^c   Dyks, Jarosław ^d,e   Harding, Alice K ^d   Zhang, Shuang N ^b,f  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR EXTRATERRESTRISCHE PHYSIK   (Germany)

^b NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR RADIOASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^e NICOLAUS COPERNICUS ASTRONOMICAL CENTER   (Poland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Pulsars: general; Stars: neutron; Stars: rotation; X rays: stars

Indexed keywords

EID: 11144275925     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/424498     Document Type: Article

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