PSR B1508 + 55
The pulsar PSR B1508 + 55 , other name PSR J1509 + 5531 , moves with the exceptionally high transverse speed of 1083 km / s. Its duration of rotation is 0.7396812656680000s, the deceleration is 5.0078000 * 10 −15 s / s, the characteristic time is 10 6.369 years.
The distance to us of about 7700 light-years could immediately above Very Long Baseline Array - measurements are derived from the parallax of 0.0004 ".
B1508 + 55 was probably created 2.5 million years ago. The birth by a supernova explosion occurred on the galactic plane outside the center in the constellation Swan. Today the pulsar is in the constellation of Dragons and is moving out of our Milky Way. The speed of B1508 + 55 is well above the theoretically expected 200 km / s. He may have received an extra boost from interacting with an early companion.