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.

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
Rotation0.016129 s
Age4,000 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
SIMBADdata

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

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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
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