Studies of neutron stars at optical/IR wavelengths

2006/08/01 by R. Mignani, R. P. Mignani, S. Bagnulo +10 · 4 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy #Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations #Astrophysics #Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae #Magnetar #Neutron star #Physics #Pulsar #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #Rotation (mathematics) #Stars #Supernova #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/s10509-007-9340-z

published as Astrophys.SpaceSci.308:203-210,2007 · 8 pages, 6 Postscript figures

arxiv created 2006/08/01 · openalex publication_date 2007/03/27 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

In the last years, optical studies of Isolated Neutron Stars (INSs) have expanded from the more classical rotation-powered ones to other categories, like the Anomalous X-ray Pulsars (AXPs) and the Soft Gamma-ray Repeaters (SGRs), which make up the class of the magnetars, the radio-quiet INSs with X-ray thermal emission and, more recently, the enigmatic Compact Central Objects (CCOs) in supernova remnants. Apart from 10 rotation-powered pulsars, so far optical/IR counterparts have been found for 5 magnetars and for 4 INSs. In this work we present some of the latest observational results obtained from optical/IR observations of different types of INSs.

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