Speaker
Dr
Bettina Posselt
(University of Oxford)
Description
Extended near-infrared emission was recently discovered with the Hubble Space Telescope at the position of RX J0806.4-4123, an X-ray thermal isolated neutron star and member of the so-called Magnificent Seven. The nature of this infrared source is still a matter of debate. Both a pulsar wind nebula or a circumpulsar disk could be explanations. We will present a summary of the multiwavelength phenomenology of this neutron star including updates from recent X-ray observations. We will discuss the different models for the extended infrared emission with respect to the observational evidence.
Author
Dr
Bettina Posselt
(University of Oxford)
Co-authors
Dr
George Pavlov
(PSU)
Unal Ertan
(Sabanci University)
