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X-ray pulsars are observed using X-ray telescopes that are satellites in low Earth orbit although some observations have been made, mostly in the early years of X-ray astronomy, using detectors carried by balloons or sounding rockets. The first X-ray pulsar to be discovered was Centaurus X-3, in 1971 with the Uhuru X-ray satellite. [1]
List of X-ray pulsars. 3 languages. ... This is a partial list of known accretion-powered pulsars, as of 1997. LMXB. Low-mass binaries Spin period (sec)
Anomalous X-ray pulsars (AXPs) are an observational manifestation of magnetars—young, isolated, highly magnetized neutron stars. These energetic X-ray pulsars are characterized by slow rotation periods of ~2–12 seconds and large magnetic fields of ~10 13 –10 15 gauss (1 to 100 gigateslas ).
X-ray pulsar-based navigation and timing (XNAV) or simply pulsar navigation is a navigation technique whereby the periodic X-ray signals emitted from pulsars are used to determine the location of a vehicle, such as a spacecraft in deep space. A vehicle using XNAV would compare received X-ray signals with a database of known pulsar frequencies ...
List of X-ray pulsars; ... List of gamma-ray bursts; List of white dwarfs; Star constellations. Lists of constellations. Lists of stars by constellation;
The pulsar provides a strong periodic signal that is used to check the timing of the X-ray detectors. In X-ray astronomy, "crab" and "millicrab" are sometimes used as units of flux density. A millicrab corresponds to a flux density of about 2.4 × 10 −11 erg s −1 cm −2 (2.4 × 10 −14 W/m 2) in the 2–10 keV X-ray band, for a "crab-like ...
Anomalous X-ray pulsars (3 P) Pages in category "X-ray pulsars" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The Bursting Pulsar (GRO J1744-28) is a low-mass x-ray binary with a period of 11.8 days. It was discovered in December 1995 by the Burst and Transient Source Experiment on the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory, the second of the NASA Great Observatories.