PSR J1203-6242

NEUTRON STARPulsar

ILLUSTRATION FROM PERIOD 101 MS · FIELD 2.13×10¹² G · CHARACTERISTIC AGE 36 100 YR · SPIN-DOWN 1.71×10³⁶ ERG/S

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OVERVIEW

] NEUTRON STAR

PSR J1203-6242 is a .

WHAT IT IS: Pulsar

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CATALOG DATA

] 6 FIELDS

The 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.

Surface magnetic field: 2.13×10¹² G
Spin period: 0.100604
Spin-down rate: 4.41×10⁻¹⁴ /s
Characteristic age: 36 121.5 yr
Spin-down luminosity: 1.71×10³⁶ erg/s

OTHER NAMES AND NUMBERS

The identifiers other catalogues file this object under, for anyone joining this data to theirs.

Associated with: GRS:4FGL_J1203.9-6242[aab+22]

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ALSO KNOWN AS

] 2 DESIGNATIONS

ATNF J1203-6242
ATNF PSR J1203-6242

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CITE THIS PAGE

] DR1

This 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.

PLAIN TEXT

SpaceCatalog. PSR J1203-6242 [catalogue entry]. Data release DR1 (2026-08-21). https://spacecatalog.org/object/psr-j1203m6242

BIBTEX

@misc{spacecatalog_psr-j1203m6242,
  author       = {{SpaceCatalog}},
  title        = {{PSR J1203-6242}},
  howpublished = {SpaceCatalog, data release DR1 (2026-08-21)},
  year         = {2026},
  url          = {https://spacecatalog.org/object/psr-j1203m6242},
  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) — Free to use with attribution; cite Manchester+ 2005 (2005AJ....129.1993M). Citing this page does not replace citing that catalogue.

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