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HST observations of middle aged isolated neutron stars

Caraveo, P. A.; Bignami, G. F.; Mignani, R.

We report the results of recent HST observations of three Middle Aged Isolated Neutron Stars i.e. PSR1055-52, Geminga and PSR0656+14. For PSR1055-52, a probable optical counterpart has been identified with the FOC. For PSR0656+14, WFPC2 imaging provided a clear detection of the proposed optical counterpart and was used to obtain a tentative measur…