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   72055
   We request 50 ks of ASCA time to make X-ray observations of the field
   containing the newly discovered radio pulsar PSR J1118-61. This pulsar,
   found as part of the ongoing Parkes Multibeam Galactic plane search for
   radio pulsars, is remarkable as it has characteristic age only 1500 yr,
   a fourth addition to the three pulsars having characteristic ages under
   2000 yr (Crab, PSRs B1509-58 and B0540-69). ASCA observations, in
   concert with the Australia Telescope Compact Array radio imaging
   observations we have been awarded, will search for a parent supernova
   remnant shell, plerionic emission, pulsed magnetospheric emission, and
   possibly thermal emission from this young, cooling neutron star.
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