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• Spitzer Podcast Interview with Deepto Chakrabarty and Zhongxiang Wang
• JPL Podcast Interview with Deepto Chakrabarty

Journal Articles:

• A Debris Disk Around an Isolated Young Neutron Star (Nature, 06 April 2006)

About the Object	Object Name: 4U 0142+61 Object Type: Neutron star (AXP) Position (J2000): RA: 01 46 22.40 Dec: +61 45 02.9 Distance: 12,700 light-years (3.9 kpc) Magnitude: Ks = 20; 51.9 +/- 5.2 uJy at 8 microns; 36.3 +/- 3.6 uJy at 4.5 microns Constellation: Cassiopeia
About the Data	Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Z. Wang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Instrument: Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) Wavelength: 4.5 and 8.0 microns Exposure Date: 17 January 2005 Exposure Time: 75 minutes (8.0 microns); 77 minutes (4.5 microns) Release Date: 5 April 2006
Observers	Zhongxiang Wang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Deepto Chakrabarty (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) David Kaplan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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