Session 8. Pulsars and Magnetars

Poster, Wednesday, September 8, 2004, 9:00am-10:00pm, La Nouvelle Orleans Room

8.01 Probing Deep into a Young PWN: Chandra Observations of 3C 58

P. Slane (CfA), D.J. Helfand (Columbia), E. van der Swaluw (FOM Institute for Plasma Physics), S.S. Murray (CfA)

8.02 Wind-Magnetosphere Interaction in Binary Pulsar System J0737-3039

A. Spitkovsky (KIPAC, Stanford University), J. Arons (UC Berkeley)

8.03 Thermoelectric Effects and Magnetic Field Evolution in Neutron Stars

W.C.G. Ho, R.D. Blandford (KIPAC/Stanford), L. Hernquist (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)

8.04 Neutron Star Structure in the Presence of Scalar Fields

D. Kazanas (NASA/GSFC, LHEA), J.P. Crawford (Dept. of Physics, Penn State U.)

8.05 Anomalous X-ray Pulsars: Pulsed Flux Flares and Large Torque Variations in 1E 1048.1-5937

F.P. Gavriil, V.M. Kaspi (McGill University)

8.06 Collective Synchrotron Absorption and Radiation by PSR J0737-3039B in the Double Pulsar Binary System

J. Arons (Astronomy Dept., University of California, Berkeley), A. Spitkovsky (Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford University)

8.07 Who Turned off the lights: Evidence of a Power-loss Threshold for Generating a Bright Pulsar Wind Nebula.

E.V. Gotthelf (Columbia University)

8.08 Radio-loud and Radio-quiet, Gamma-ray Pulsars from the Galactic Plane and the Gould Belt

P.L. Gonthier (Hope College), R. Van Guilder (U. Colorado, Denver), A.K. Harding (NASA GSFC), I Greneir (Univ. Paris VII & Service d'Astrophysique CEA Saclay), C. Perrot (Sanford Linear Accelerator Center)

8.09 A near-IR VLT survey of the N49 region around SGR0526-66

D.H. Hartmann (Clemson), S Klose (TLS), A. Henden (USNO), U. Geppert (AIP), J. Greiner (MPE), H. Guetter (TLS), C. Kouveliotou (NSSTC), C. Luginbuhl (USNO), B. Stecklum (TLS), F. Vrba (USNO)

8.10 Revealing the X-ray emission processes of old rotation-powered pulsars: XMM-Newton Observations of PSR B0950+08, PSR B0823+26 and PSR J2043+2740

W. Becker (MPE), M.C. Weisskopf, A.F. Tennant (MSFC), A. Jessner (MPIfR), J. Dyks, A.K. Harding (GSFC), S.N. Zhang (UAH)

8.11 A multi-wavelength search for a counterpart of the unidentified Gamma-ray source 3EG J2020+4017 (2CG078+2)

W. Becker (MPE), M.C. Weisskopf (MSFC), Z. Arzoumanian (GSFC), D. Lorimer (University of Manchester), F. Camilo (Columbia University), R.F. Elsner (MSFC), G. Kanbach (MPE), O. Reimer (Ruhr-Universiaet Bochum), D.A. Swartz (USRA / MSFC), A.F. Tennant, S.L. O'Dell (MSFC)

8.12 Search for high energy emission from AXPs using RXTE

E. Kalemci (SSL / UC Berkeley), E. Gogus, U. Ertan, M. A. Alpar (Sabanci University), W. Coburn (SSL / UC Berkeley)

8.13 Fading of the Transient Anomalous X-ray Pulsar XTE J1810-197

J. P. Halpern, E. V. Gotthelf (Columbia U.)

8.14 The Curious Behavior of PSR J0537-6910

F.E. Marshall (NASA/GSFC), E.V. Gotthelf (Columbia U.), J. Middleditch (LANL), Q.D. Wang (U. of Mass.), W. Zhang (NASA/GSFC)

8.15 PSR B1951+32: A Bow Shock-Confined X-ray Nebula, a Synchrotron Knot and an Optical Counterpart Candidate

D.-S. Moon (California Institute of Technology), J.-J. Lee (Seoul National University), S. S. Eikenberry (University of Florida), B.-C. Koo (Seoul National University), S. Chatterjee (National Radio Astronomy Observatory), D. L. Kaplna (California Institute of Technology), J. J. Hester (Arizona State University), J. M. Cordes (Cornell University), Y. A. Gallant (Montpellier), L. Koch-Miramond (CEA/Saclay)

8.16 Pulsar Wind Tori and the Spin-Kick Connection

C.-Y. Ng, R. W. Romani (Dept. of Physics, Stanford University)

8.17 XMM-Newton Observation of the High Magnetic Field Radio Pulsar PSR B0154+61

M. E. Gonzalez, V. M. Kaspi (McGill University), A. G. Lyne (University of Manchester), M. J. Pivovaroff (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

8.18 PSR B1046-58 and its PWN as seen with Chandra

M. E. Gonzalez, V. M. Kaspi (McGill University), B. Gaensler (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), M. J. Pivovaroff (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

8.19 Measuring Braking Indices for Young, Energetic Pulsars

M.A. Livingstone, V.M. Kaspi, F.P. Gavriil (McGill), R.N. Manchester (ATNF)

8.20 Discovery of a Correlation between Post-Outburst Near-Infrared and X-ray Emission from the Anomalous X-ray Pulsar 1E 2259+586

C. R. Tam, V. M. Kaspi (McGill University), M. H. van Kerkwijk, M. Durant (University of Toronto)

8.21 Phase Resolved Spectroscopy of PSR 0656+14

J. A. Kennea (University of California, Riverside), W. Becker (MPE, Germany), F. A. Cordova (University of California, Riverside)