PSR J1745-2900
ILLUSTRATION FROM PERIOD 3.76 S · FIELD 2.6×10¹⁴ G · CHARACTERISTIC AGE 3400 YR · SPIN-DOWN 1.3×10³⁴ ERG/S
OVERVIEW
] NEUTRON STARPSR J1745-2900 is a in the constellation Sagittarius, 27 035 from Earth. It was discovered in 2013.
A magnetar a fraction of a light-year from the black hole at the centre of the galaxy — the closest pulsar to Sagittarius A* known. Its pulses arrive scattered and delayed by the gas of the Galactic Centre, which makes it a probe of that region as much as an object in it.
- WHAT IT IS
- Magnetar
- HOW FAR
- 27 035
The light arriving now left it that long ago.
OBSERVING
] FROM WHERE YOU AREWhat it takes to see PSR J1745-2900 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.
Say where you are, and this line says when PSR J1745-2900 is worth going out for.
APPARENT PLACE
] EQUINOX J2026.8Where 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
- 22.5
- PROPER MOTION SINCE J2014.7
- 0.08
Computed for 2026-10-19 00:00 UT. Two things separate it from the catalogued position above: PSR J1745-2900 has moved under its own proper motion, and the coordinate grid has turned under it — about fifty arcseconds a year of precession since 2000, and the small nodding of the Earth’s axis on top of that. The motion is counted from J2014.7, the epoch the position above was measured at — a different thing from the equinox its coordinates are named for, even where the two fall in the same year. The catalogued place is itself known to 14 mas, which is what this arithmetic can be trusted to however many digits it is printed with. Aberration, parallax and refraction are left out. Aberration swings every position by up to twenty arcseconds over a year; parallax stays under an arcsecond for all but the nearest stars; refraction is nothing overhead and about half a degree at the horizon, where it answers to the air, not the sky. The same figure for any date.
CATALOG DATA
] 11 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.
- Surface magnetic field
- 2.6×10¹⁴ G
- Spin period
- 3.76373
- Spin-down rate
- 1.76×10⁻¹¹ /s
- Characteristic age
- 3395.16 yr
- Spin-down luminosity
- 1.3×10³⁴ erg/s
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.
- Proper motion (RA)
- 2.5 ±0.4
- Proper motion (Dec)
- 5.89 ±0.11
- Position epoch
- J2014.660
- Position known to
- 14 mas
- Dispersion measure
- 1778 pc/cm³
OTHER NAMES AND NUMBERS
The identifiers other catalogues file this object under, for anyone joining this data to theirs.
- Associated with
- XRS:SGR_J1745-29[kbk+13]
ALSO KNOWN AS
] 2 DESIGNATIONS- ATNF J1745-2900
- ATNF PSR J1745-2900
LOOK IT UP ELSEWHERE
] 1 SERVICEEach 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.
- VizieR5″ around 266.4174 -29.0083
Every published table with a row at this position, searched by coordinates rather than by name.
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 J1745-2900 [catalogue entry]. Data release DR1 (2026-08-21). https://spacecatalog.org/object/psr-j1745m2900
@misc{spacecatalog_psr-j1745m2900,
author = {{SpaceCatalog}},
title = {{PSR J1745-2900}},
howpublished = {SpaceCatalog, data release DR1 (2026-08-21)},
year = {2026},
url = {https://spacecatalog.org/object/psr-j1745m2900},
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
RECENT ACTIVITY
] 2 ITEMS- Long-Term Astrometric Monitoring of the Galactic Center Magnetar PSR J1745--29002025-06-03 · arXiv · PAPER · Geoffrey C. Bower, Adam T. Deller, Paul B. Demorest, Jason Dexter, Andreas Brunthaler, Gregory Desvignes
- Magnetically arrested transmutation of a compact star2025-05-27 · arXiv · PAPER · H. A. Adarsha, Chandrachur Chakraborty, Sudip Bhattacharyya
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