Alex van Kooten

Pulsed Infrared Emission from Magnetar 4U 0142+61 Detected by JWST

Abstract We report on a JWST observation of the magnetar 4U 0142+61 on 2024 August 18 with the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam). NIRCam observed the magnetar for 33 minutes in timing mode, providing a time resolution of 2.5 s. In the F410M filter (pivot wavelength 4.08 μ m), we meas...