ANTF Pulsar catalog

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ANTF Pulsar catalog

Post #1by selden » 19.12.2004, 17:52

A Celestia Addon providing the locations of 1509 pulsars is now available. It was derived from the ANTF Pulsar Database and is compatible with Celestia v1.3.1 or later.

More information is available at http://www.lepp.cornell.edu/~seb/celestia/catalogs.html#3.5.14

The Addon can be downloaded from http://www.lepp.cornell.edu/~seb/celestia/antf_pulsars.zip (76KB)

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Note that outlines are visible of several nearby arms of the Milky Way. The large plus indicates the location of the Sun.
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Post #2by Cham » 20.12.2004, 02:19

Selden, I think that all the pulsars RotationPeriod are missing a 24 factor. Can you check this ?
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Post #3by Cham » 30.12.2004, 03:35

Selden,

I noticed that in pulsars_atnf_v2.stc, there are still some objects with exactly the same coordinates. See for example PSR J0024-7204R, PSR J0024-7204V and PSR J0024-7204W. Celestia gives some aesthetical problems there.

Are there any other objects with the same coordinates in this file ? What should we do about them ?
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