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The Tail of PSR J0002+6216 and the Supernova Remnant CTB 1

  • Authors: F. K. Schinzel, M. Kerr, U. Rau, S. Bhatnagar, and D. A. Frail

2019 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 876 L17.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 3.

Radio continuum image of the cometary tail at 1.5 GHz (20 cm). PSR J0002+6216 lies at the base of the arrows at R.A. = 00h02m58.17(2)s and decl. = +62°16′9.4(1)″ (Clark et al. 2017). The contour levels are at −3, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 15, 30, 60, 120, and 240 times the rms noise of 31 μJy beam−1. The size of the VLA synthesized beam of 12.″4 × 9.″0 is shown by the ellipse in the bottom left corner. The southeastern shell of the SNR CTB 1 is visible on the top right-hand corner. The solid red arrow shows the future 500 yr proper motion shift at the best-fit position angle taken from the posterior distribution of the timing model (Table 1); dashed arrows show 450 yr shifts at the 1σ position angle limits.

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