Search for the isolated millisecond pulsar J0030+0451 in the optical

A. B. Koptsevich
Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
et al.

Nearby isolated millisecond pulsar J0030+0451 was detected in radio with Arecibo telescope and in X-rays with ROSAT, both in 2000. We report an attempt to reveal it in the optical with the VLT. No pulsar was found, upper limits are obtained in B, V and R bands.


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