Cannonball Pulsar
nrao_NRAO_Gallery_nrao19df03_cannonball_cropCTB1CGPSVLA_Compsite
Credit: Composite by Jayanne English, University of Manitoba; F. Schinzel et al.; NRAO/AUI/NSF; DRAO/Canadian Galactic Plane Survey; and NASA/IRAS.
Observations using the Very Large Array (orange) reveal the needle-like trail of pulsar J0002+6216 outside the shell of its supernova remnant, shown in image from the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey. The pulsar escaped the remnant some 5,000 years after the supernova explosion.
Provider: National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Image Source: https://public.nrao.edu/gallery/cannonball-pulsar/
Curator: NRAO/AUI/NSF, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
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- ID
- NRAO_Gallery_nrao19df03_cannonball_cropCTB1CGPSVLA_Compsite
- Subject Category
- B.3.1.9.1 B.4.1.4
- Subject Name
- J0002+6216
- Credits
- Composite by Jayanne English, University of Manitoba; F. Schinzel et al.; NRAO/AUI/NSF; DRAO/Canadian Galactic Plane Survey; and NASA/IRAS.
- Release Date
- Lightyears
- 6,500
- Redshift
- 6,500
- Reference Url
- https://public.nrao.edu/gallery/cannonball-pulsar/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- CGPS, VLA
- Instrument
- Color Assignment
- -, Orange
- Band
- Radio, Radio
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- 2.1E+8, 1.97E+8
- Start Time
- -, 2017-08-19T11:35:37.500000
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 0.1709243753, 62.21973121
- Reference Dimension
- 2500, 2468
- Reference Pixel
- 1250, 1234
- Scale
- 0.00068940491491142, 0.00070571023439943
- Rotation
- 0
- Coordinate System Projection:
- Quality
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- NRAO/AUI/NSF
- URL
- https://public.nrao.edu
- Name
- NRAO/AUI/NSF
- outreach@nrao.edu
- Telephone
- Address
- 520 Edgemont Road
- City
- Charlottesville
- State/Province
- Virginia
- Postal Code
- 22903
- Country
- USA
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
- Publisher
- NRAO/AUI/NSF
- Publisher ID
- nrao
- Resource ID
- Resource URL
- https://public.nrao.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/nrao19df03_cannonball_cropCTB1CGPSVLA_Compsite-1.jpg
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2019-03-20T10:00:25-04:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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