PulsarCam

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Overview

The pulsar camera is a phase-binning CCD designed to determine photometric and photo-polarimetric light-curves for objects with known periodicities, such as pulsars.

Recent Results on PSR 0656

This light curve was obtained over 2 nights at the Palomar 200 inch telescope in December, 2000. The light curve shows a main peak and a clear interpeak. The light curve closely resembles the gamma-ray light curve.

Recent Results on Vela

The Vela pulsar was observed from the CTIO 4 meter in Feb, 2000 to measure polarization. High noise prevented a sensitive polarization measurement.

This page last modified on 24 Sep 2001 15:30