PSR J2238+6021

NEUTRON STARPulsar

ILLUSTRATION FROM PERIOD 3.07 S

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OVERVIEW

] NEUTRON STAR

PSR J2238+6021 is a , 12 058 from Earth.

WHAT IT IS: Pulsar
HOW FAR: 12 058

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CATALOG DATA

] 2 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.

Spin period: 3.07

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: 185.3 pc/cm³

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ALSO KNOWN AS

] 2 DESIGNATIONS

ATNF J2238+6021
ATNF PSR J2238+6021

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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 J2238+6021 [catalogue entry]. Data release DR1 (2026-08-21). https://spacecatalog.org/object/psr-j2238p6021

BIBTEX

@misc{spacecatalog_psr-j2238p6021,
  author       = {{SpaceCatalog}},
  title        = {{PSR J2238+6021}},
  howpublished = {SpaceCatalog, data release DR1 (2026-08-21)},
  year         = {2026},
  url          = {https://spacecatalog.org/object/psr-j2238p6021},
  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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