PSR J0537−6910

Star in the constellation Dorado

PSR J0537-69
Observation data Epoch J2000 Equinox J2000
Constellation	Dorado
Right ascension	05h 37m 47.6s
Declination	-69° 10' 20"'
Characteristics
Spectral type	Pulsar
Variable type	None
Astrometry


Distance	170,000 ly
Details

Rotation	0.016129 s
Age	4,000 years

Other designations
PSR J0537-69, CXOU J053747.3-691020, XMMU J053747.4-691020, CXOU J053747.4-691019, PSR J0537-6910, [CWG2006] 4.
Database references
SIMBAD	data

PSR J0537-6910 is a pulsar that is 4,000 years old (not including the light travel time to Earth). It is located about 170,000 light-years away, in the southern constellation of Dorado, and is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud. It rotates at 62 hertz.

A team at LANL advanced that it is possible to predict starquakes in J0537-6910,^[1] meaning that it may be possible to devise a way to forecast glitches at least in some exceptional pulsars.^[2] The same team observed magnetic pole drift on this pulsar with observational data from Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer.

References

^ Middleditch, John; Marshall, Francis E.; Wang, Q. Daniel; Gotthelf, Eric V.; Zhang, William (December 2006). "Predicting the Starquakes in PSR J0537-6910". The Astrophysical Journal. 652 (2): 1531–1546. arXiv:astro-ph/0605007. Bibcode:2006ApJ...652.1531M. doi:10.1086/508736. ISSN 0004-637X.
^ Antonelli, Marco; Montoli, Alessandro; Pizzochero, Pierre (November 2022), "Insights into the Physics of Neutron Star Interiors from Pulsar Glitches", Astrophysics in the XXI Century with Compact Stars, pp. 219–281, arXiv:2301.12769, doi:10.1142/9789811220944_0007, ISBN 978-981-12-2093-7, S2CID 256390487

External links

Scientists Can Predict Pulsar Starquakes (SpaceDaily) Jun 07, 2006
SIMBAD entry for PSR J0537-6910

Bayer	α β γ δ ε ζ η¹ η² θ κ λ ν π¹ π² G
Variable	R (P) S WZ AB BB
HR	1859 2102
HD	27274 28254 30177 33579 37836 37974 38282 269810
Other	BAT99-7 BAT99-66 BAT99-68 BAT99-98 BAT99-104 BAT99-123 BI 253 Gliese 163 HE 0437-5439 HV 888 IRAS 05280–6910 LHA 120-S 79 LH 41-1042 LH 54-425 LMC195-1 MACHO 80.7443.1718 Melnick 34 Melnick 42 PSR J0523−7125 PSR J0537−6910 PSR J0540−6919 R85 R99 R136 a a1 a2 a3 b c R139 R145 SGR 0525−66 TOI-700 TOI-813 VFTS 102 VFTS 243 VFTS 352 VFTS 682 WASP-62 (Naledi) WOH G64

Exoplanets	Gliese 163 c HD 28254 b HD 30177 b TOI-700 d e TOI-813 b TOI-4127 b

Star
clusters

NGC	1712 1712 1755 1761 1763 1783 1806 1818 1820 1846 1847 1850 1852 1854/1855 1856 1858 1859 1860 1866 1868 1869 1871 1872 1873 1898 1901 1903 1910 1929 1935 1955 1969 1971 1974 1978 1983 1984 1994 1997 2001 2002 2003 2004 2027 2040 2070 2074 2100 2108 2164 2197 2241 2257
Other	Hodge 301 LH 95

Nebulae

NGC	1934 1936 2014 2020 2029 2032 2060 2078 2080
Other	Henize 70 Honeycomb Nebula N119 N11 N41 N44 N49 N55 SNR 0509-67.5 Tarantula Nebula (30)