Pulsar astrophysics across the electromagnetic spectrum

by Roberto Mignani (INAF/IASF)

Wednesday 6 Mar 2019, 03:00 → 05:00 Europe/Rome

Pulsars are rapidly spinning neutron stars that emit electromagnetic radiation (mostly) at the expenses of their rotational energy, hence also referred to as rotation-powered pulsars.  part from the radio band, where the first of the over 2500 radio pulsars known to date was originally discovered, pulsars are also observed in X-rays, gamma rays, optical, infrared (IR), ultraviolet (UV), and the sub-millimeter  In this talk, I will review the state of the art of pulsar identifications outside the radio band, I describe their observational properties, and I present some new results.