A Fast-Moving Central Compact Object in Puppis-A

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dc.creatorHui, C. Y.
dc.creatorBecker, W.
dc.date2006-12-21
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T07:36:27Z
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dc.descriptionUtilizing two Chandra High Resolution Camera (HRC-I) observations with an epoch separation of somewhat more than five years, we have measured the proper motion of the central compact object, RX J0822-4300, in the supernova remnant Puppis-A for the first time. The position of RX J0822-4300 is found to be different by 0.574 +/- 0.184 arcsec, implying a proper motion of 107.49 +/- 34.46 mas/yr with a position angle of 241 degree +/- 24 degree. For a distance of 2.2 kpc, this proper motion is equivalent to a recoil velocity of 1121.79 +/- 359.60 km/s. Both the magnitude and the direction of the proper motion are in agreement with the birth place of RX J0822-4300 being near to the optical expansion center of the supernova remnant. Although the positional shift inferred from the current data is significant at a ~ 3 sigma level only, one or more future HRC-I observations can obtain a much larger positional separation and further constrain the measurement.
dc.descriptionProceedings of the 363. WE-Heraeus Seminar on: Neutron Stars and Pulsars (Posters and contributed talks) Physikzentrum Bad Honnef, Germany, May.14-19, 2006, eds. W.Becker, H.H.Huang, MPE Report 291, pp.9-12
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0612626
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0612626
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/120428
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.titleA Fast-Moving Central Compact Object in Puppis-A
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