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Proposal ID 0720015
Obs ID 07200150001, 07200150002
Title Polarimetric Observations of the Vela Pulsar
Download Data Associated to the proposal https://isla.esac.esa.int/tap/download/bundle?format=ascii_curl&product_id=prop_id:0720015
DOI https://doi.org/10.57780/esa-u1r4ywo
Author Dean
Abstract We propose to make use of the demonstrated polarisation capability of the INTEGRAL SPI instrument in order to study the polarisation characteristics of the Vela pulsar/PWN system. The astrophysical aim is to confirm the validity of the striped wind model of pulsar emission through a test to verify if the polarization vector is aligned the with the spin axis of this pulsar as it was found to be in the Crab
Publications
Temporal Coverage 2009-11-07T20:40:48Z / 2010-10-13T12:32:12Z
Version 1.0
Mission Description The INTEGRAL (International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory) mission, launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) on October 17, 2002, was designed to study high-energy phenomena in the universe. INTEGRAL was operating until february 2025 and it was equipped with three high-energy instruments: the Imager on Board the INTEGRAL Satellite (IBIS), the Spectrometer on INTEGRAL (SPI), and the JEM-X (Joint European Monitor for X-rays). Its Optical Monitoring Camera (OMC) provided optical V-band magnitude measurements, complementing the high-energy observations.
Creator Contact https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/integral/helpdesk
Date Published 2025-03-25T09:54:35Z
Publisher And Registrant European Space Agency
Credit Guidelines European Space Agency, Dean, 2025, 'Polarimetric Observations of the Vela Pulsar', 1.0, European Space Agency, https://doi.org/10.57780/esa-u1r4ywo