RXTE Observations of the Vela Pulsar: The X-ray-Optical Connection

Alice K Harding, Mark S. Strickman, Carl Gwinn +2

We report on our analysis of a 300 ks observation of the Vela pulsar with the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer (RXTE). The double-peaked, pulsed emission at 2 - 30 keV, which we had pre…