The Early Gaia Data Release 3 (EDR3) provides precise astrometry for nearly 1.5 billion sources across the entire sky. A few tens of these are associated with neutron stars in the Milky Way and Magellanic Clouds. Here, we report on a search for EDR3 counterparts to known rotation-powered pulsars using the method outlined in Antoniadis (2021). A cross-correlation between EDR3 and the ATNF pulsar catalogue identifies 41 close astrometric pairs ($< 0.5$ arcsec at the reference epoch of the pulsar position). Twenty six of these are related to previously-known optical counterparts, while the rest are candidate pairs that require further follow-up. Highlights include the Crab Pulsar (PSR B0531+21), for which EDR3 yields a distance of $2.08^{+0.78}_{-0.45}$ kpc (or $2.00_{-0.38}^{+0.56}$ kpc taking into account the dispersion-measure prior; errors indicate 95% confidence limits) and PSR J1638-4608, a pulsar thus-far considered to be isolated that lies within 0.056 arcsec of a Gaia source.
Modelling the Future of Gaia Neutron Star-Main Sequence Binaries: From Eccentric Orbits to Millisecond Pulsar-White Dwarfs
Northwestern University(西北大学);NSF-Simons AI Institute for the Sky (SkAI)(NSF-Simons 天空人工智能研究所);University of California, San Diego(加州大学圣地亚哥分校);California Institute of Technology(加州理工学院)
A Census of Pulsars in Possible Association with Galactic Open Clusters
School of Physics and Technology, Wuhan University(武汉大学物理科学与技术学院);Department of Physics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Beijing Normal University(北京师范大学文理学院物理系);Advanced Institute of Natural Sciences, Beijing Normal University(北京师范大学前沿科学中心);Institute for Gravitational Wave Astronomy, Henan Academy of Sciences(河南省科学院引力波天文研究院);Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院上海天文台);Institute for Frontier in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Beijing Normal University(北京师范大学天文与空间科学学院)
Searching for Spider-Like Pulsars from TESS Ellipsoidal Lightcurves with X-ray counterparts
School of Physics and Astronomy, Sun Yat-Sen University(中山大学物理学院);CSST Science Center for the Guangdong-Hongkong-Macau Greater Bay Area, Sun Yat-Sen University(中山大学CSST粤港澳大湾区科学中心);Laboratory for Space Research, The University of Hong Kong(香港大学空间研究实验室);Institute of Astronomy Space and Earth Science, P177, CIT Road, Scheme-7M, Kolkata, 700054, West Bengal, India(印度西孟加拉邦加尔各答CIT路P177号 scheme-7M 天体物理学、空间与地球科学研究所)
A pilot VLBI study of the SQUAB quasar sample featuring multiple Gaia detections
Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, CAS(中国科学院上海天文台);State Key Laboratory of Radio Astronomy and Technology(射电天文学与技术国家重点实验室);CSIRO Space and Astronomy(澳大利亚联邦科学与工业研究组织空间与天文部);School of Astronomy and Space Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院大学天文与空间科学学院)