While updating the pulsars database from the ATNF web site, I found an interesting paper on pulsars showing their distribution in the Milky Way :
http://emis.impa.br/journals/LRG/Articl ... 05-7BW.pdf
Here's a figure from that paper showing the pulsars distribution :
And here's what I have with my latest pulsars database in Celestia. I added the arrows as references. The match is very good !
Pulsars cross check
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Pulsars cross check
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