Crab pulsar

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Crab pulsar

See Crab nebula.

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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1) Remove clock events with the "sefilter" command for PSR B0531+21 or combine FITS files with the "se_make" command for PSR B1509-58 and PSR B0540-69.
The data processing results of PSR B0531+21 are shown in Figure 8.
Vivekanand, "RXTE observations of single pulses of PSR B0531+21 II.
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.
Caption: Figure 8: The experiment results of PSR B0531+21.
X-Ray Pulsar Profile Recovery Based on Tracking-Differentiator

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