PSR J1129-53
ILLUSTRATION FROM PERIOD 1.06 S
OVERVIEW
NEUTRON STARPSR J1129-53 is a , 4752 from Earth.
- WHAT IT IS
- Rotating radio transient
- HOW FAR
- 4752
The light arriving now left it that long ago.
CATALOG DATA
2 FIELDSThe raw catalogue values, as the source published them, with the error bars where one was published — sorted by what each set of figures is about rather than by the order they happened to be stored in.
WHAT KIND OF THING IT IS
What the object is in itself, rather than how it happens to look from here.
- Spin period
- 1.06288
WHERE IT IS AND HOW IT MOVES
Position, motion across the sky and the size it covers on it. These are measurements of the object as seen from here, so every one of them depends on where here is.
- Dispersion measure
- 77 pc/cm³
ALSO KNOWN AS
2 DESIGNATIONS- ATNF J1129-53
- ATNF PSR J1129-53
CITE THIS PAGE
DR1This page is live and its numbers move when an upstream refreshes, so the citation names the release the rows belong to rather than the day you read them. The release itself is frozen, republished as a bundle, and is what a data-availability statement should point at.
SpaceCatalog. PSR J1129-53 [catalogue entry]. Data release DR1 (2026-08-21). https://spacecatalog.org/object/psr-j1129m53
@misc{spacecatalog_psr-j1129m53,
author = {{SpaceCatalog}},
title = {{PSR J1129-53}},
howpublished = {SpaceCatalog, data release DR1 (2026-08-21)},
year = {2026},
url = {https://spacecatalog.org/object/psr-j1129m53},
note = {Catalogue entry, data release DR1 (2026-08-21). Values from ATNF Pulsar Catalogue (Manchester+ 2005).}
}The values above were taken from ATNF Pulsar Catalogue (Manchester+ 2005) — No licence stated; the database is ATNF/CSIRO property under the CSIRO Legal Notice and Disclaimer. Citing this page does not replace citing that catalogue.
That catalogue asks for this acknowledgement: Manchester, R. N., Hobbs, G. B., Teoh, A. & Hobbs, M. 2005, AJ 129, 1993 (2005AJ....129.1993M); https://www.atnf.csiro.au/research/pulsar/psrcat