Talk:Vela X

Vela Pulsar, Vela X, Vela X-1, and Vel A
I have just noticed that SIMBAD's page for the Vela Pulsar has "Vel A" shown as an alternate name, but no "Vela X" or "Vel X". I have always thought that Vela X was the older name for the radio source, but the older convention was I beleive to name the strongest radio source in a constellation A, next strongest B, etc. Thus Cyg A, Cen A, Cas A, etc. This would seem to support Vel A as the proper name. Just to reassure myself that I did not personally invent Vela X, I've done a Google search on it, and see that there are references to it in the earlier literature, though not very many. But Google does not find a significant number of hits on either "Vel A" or "Vela A", except for obvious mistakes. So at the moment it is fair to say I am confused. It looks to me like maybe SIMBAD dreamed up Vel A? But anyhow, IMHO, Vel X etc should be deprecated because of the danger of confusion with Vela X-1, and I have just removed "Vel A" from the list of names in the Vela Pulsar article. Maybe some other editorcan clarify?

At some point the (negligible) information in this article needs to be merged into the Vela Pulsar article, replacing this with a redirect. I recommend that no new info be put in this one before that happens. At this point I guess I wouldn't touch "Vel A".... Wwheaton (talk) 03:58, 4 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Seems like time for this merge to happen. Is there anything at all left in this article which needs to go into Vela pulsar before I replace it with a redirect? Lithopsian (talk) 16:45, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
 * I've WP:BOLDly redirected; there was nothing really of importance there that isn't in the other article. If you think I missed anything, well the content's still in the page history, and can be accessed there. StringTheory11 (t • c) 19:26, 1 October 2013 (UTC)