PSR J1614+0737

NEUTRON STARPulsar

ILLUSTRATION FROM PERIOD 1.21 S · FIELD 1.71×10¹² G · CHARACTERISTIC AGE 8 100 000 YR · SPIN-DOWN 5.3×10³¹ ERG/S

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OVERVIEW

] NEUTRON STAR

PSR J1614+0737 is a in the constellation Hercules, 5424 from Earth. Other catalogues list it as B1612+07 and PSR B1612+07.

WHAT IT IS
Pulsar
HOW FAR
5424

The light arriving now left it that long ago.

WHERE TO LOOK
Hercules

The patch of sky it sits in, as seen from Earth.

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OBSERVING

] FROM WHERE YOU ARE

What it takes to see PSR J1614+0737 for yourself. Everything in this part of the page is worked out for a real horizon, a real night and the equipment you say you have.

TONIGHT

Say where you are, and this line says when PSR J1614+0737 is worth going out for.

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APPARENT PLACE

] EQUINOX J2026.7

Where a telescope has to be pointed today, which is not quite where the catalogue records the object: the coordinate grid itself has turned since the year 2000 the catalogue is referred to.

RIGHT ASCENSION
DECLINATION
GRID TURNED SINCE
19.8
PROPER MOTION SINCE
none published

Computed for 2026-09-05 00:00 UT. No proper motion is published for PSR J1614+0737, so nothing here moves the object; what separates this from the catalogued position above is the coordinate grid turning under it — about fifty arcseconds a year of precession since 2000, and the small nodding of the Earth’s axis on top of that. Aberration and refraction are not included, and neither is parallax; each is under an arcminute, which is also about as well as the catalogued position is known. The same figure for any date.

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CATALOG DATA

] 7 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
1.71×10¹² G
Spin period
1.2068
Spin-down rate
2.36×10⁻¹⁵ /s
Characteristic age
8 103 426 yr
Spin-down luminosity
5.3×10³¹ erg/s

HOW BRIGHT IT IS

What the light adds up to, measured through one filter at a time. A magnitude is a brightness on a backwards scale — the smaller the number, the brighter the object.

Radio flux at 1400 MHz
0.6 mJy

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
21.39 pc/cm³
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ALSO KNOWN AS

] 4 DESIGNATIONS
  • ATNF B1612+07
  • ATNF J1614+0737
  • ATNF PSR B1612+07
  • ATNF PSR J1614+0737
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LOOK IT UP ELSEWHERE

] 1 SERVICE

Each link carries the identifier printed beside it. Nothing on this page is a measurement of our own, so a number that disagrees with one of these is worth reporting — and a service that has never catalogued this object under this name will say so plainly.

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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 J1614+0737 [catalogue entry]. Data release DR1 (2026-08-21). https://spacecatalog.org/object/psr-j1614p0737
BIBTEX
@misc{spacecatalog_psr-j1614p0737,
  author       = {{SpaceCatalog}},
  title        = {{PSR J1614+0737}},
  howpublished = {SpaceCatalog, data release DR1 (2026-08-21)},
  year         = {2026},
  url          = {https://spacecatalog.org/object/psr-j1614p0737},
  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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