GLIMPSE-C01 located in the constellation Aquila (IMAGE)

Naval Research Laboratory

GLIMPSE-C01 located in the constellation Aquila

Caption

VLITE 340 MHz image of GLIMPSE-C01 from February 27, 2021. The clean beam is shown as a white ellipse in the lower left corner and has dimensions of 5 0 × 4 7 with a position angle of 52°. The cross denotes the central position of GLIMPSE-C01. The dashed white circle shows the core radius of 36″. The location of the pulsar candidate is shown with a solid white circle. A scale bar indicating a linear size of 0.2 pc (12 5), assuming a distance to GLIMPSE-C01 of 3.3 kpc, is shown in the lower right corner. 

Credit

National Radio Astronomy Observatory/NRL/Texas Tech

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