Geminga

General information

• Name of the source: Geminga
• Brief description of the source: Radio-quiet middle-aged gamma-ray pulsar
  • Object type : Pulsar
  • Other relevant information: Third pulsar detected by IACTs
  • RA: 06 33 54.15 (hh mm ss), Dec: +17 46 12.9 (dd mm ss)
  • RA, Dec in deg (ICRS): 98.48 17.77
  • Galactic coordinates: l=195.13 b=+04.27

People involved

• Álvaro Mas-Aguilar (alvmas@ucm.es)
• Marcos López-Moya (marcos@gae.ucm.es)
• Giulia Brunelli (giulia.brunelli@inaf.it)
• Rubén López-Coto (rlopezcoto@iaa.es)
• Giovanni Ceribella (ceribell@mpp.mpg.de)
• Paul K. H. Yeung (pkh91yg@icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp)

Data-taking information

Geminga has been observed with standard wobble observations (offset = 0.4 deg), in dark and good weather conditions:

• TNG dust < 0.5 ug/m3
• No clouds both from satellite images and all sky camera
• Rate_LL around 5.5 kHz
• Lidar trans@9km >= 0.85