4 papers
Why study pulsars optically?
A. Shearer, A. Golden
Observations of the five confirmed optical pulsars indicate that the peak emission scales according to the magnetic field strength at the light cylinder. To the accuracy that such…
Implications of the Optical Observations of Isolated Neutron Stars
Andy Shearer, Aaron Golden, Gregory Beskin
Observations of the 5 confirmed optical pulsars indicate that the peak emission scales according to the outer field strength. We show that this gives gives further confirmation tha…
Unpulsed Optical Emission from the Crab Pulsar
Aaron Golden, Andy Shearer, Gregory Beskin
Using the high speed 2-d TRIFFID photometer, we have obtained phase resolved photometry of the Crab pulsar in UBV that allows us to flux the unpulsed light curve component. Followi…
Time-Resolved Optical Observations of PSR 1509-58
A. Shearer, C. M. M. O' Sullivan, A. Golden +4
Using time resolved 2-dimensional aperture photometry we have established that the optical candidate for PSR 1509-58 does not pulse. Our pulsed upper limits (m_V = 24.3 and m_B = 2…