Crab pulsar

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Crab pulsar

See Crab nebula.
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Crab pulsar

[′krab ′pəl‚sär]
(astronomy)
A pulsar found in the center of the Crab Nebula with a period of about 0.033 second and that emits radiation at all wavelengths from the radio to the x-ray region.
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Until Feb., 2017, XPNAV-1 has observed three sources, that is, PSR B0531+21 (Crab), PSR B0540-69, and PSR B1509-58.
From coordinate universal time (UTC) 57709.0 in modified Julian date (MJD) to 57872.0 MJD, TSXS carried out 162 segments of observations upon PSR B0531+21. These TSXS observation data are made public and can be downloaded at the Beidou official website [19].
Mission Overview and Initial Observation Results of the X-Ray Pulsar Navigation-I Satellite
They are PSR B0531+21, PSR B1509-58, and PSR B0540-69.
The data processing results of PSR B0531+21 are shown in Figure 8.
By simulating the photon data of the two typical pulsars (PSR B0531+21 and PSR B1937+21), the paper analyzes the performance of the method.
Caption: FIGURE 1: (a) The profile of PSR B0531+21 when observing 360 s.
Caption: FIGURE 7: (a) The standard profile of PSR B0531+21. (b) The standard profile of PSR B1937+21.
Caption: Figure 8: The experiment results of PSR B0531+21.
X-Ray Pulsar Profile Recovery Based on Tracking-Differentiator

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