XMM-Newton observations of a gamma-ray pulsar J0633+0632: pulsations, cooling and large-scale emission

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العنوان: XMM-Newton observations of a gamma-ray pulsar J0633+0632: pulsations, cooling and large-scale emission
المؤلفون: Danilenko, Andrey, Karpova, Anna, Ofengeim, Dmitry, Shibanov, Yury, Zyuzin, Dmitry
المصدر: 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 493, Issue 2, p.1874-1887
سنة النشر: 2020
المجموعة: Astrophysics
مصطلحات موضوعية: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
الوصف: We report results of XMM-Newton observations of a $\gamma$-ray pulsar J0633+0632 and its wind nebula. We reveal, for the first time, pulsations of the pulsar X-ray emission with a single sinusoidal pulse-profile and a pulsed fraction of $23 \, \pm \, 6$ per cent in the 0.3--2 keV band. We confirm previous Chandra findings that the pulsar X-ray spectrum consists of thermal and non-thermal components. However, we do not find the absorption feature that was previously detected at about 0.8 keV. Thanks to the greater sensitivity of XMM-Newton, we get stronger constraints on spectral model parameters compared to previous studies. The thermal component can be equally well described by either blackbody or neutron star atmosphere models, implying that this emission is coming from either hot pulsar polar caps with a temperature of about 120 eV or from the colder bulk of the neutron star surface with a temperature of about 50 eV. In the latter case, the pulsar appears to be one of the coolest among other neutron stars of similar ages with estimated surface temperatures. We discuss cooling scenarios relevant to this neutron star. Using an interstellar absorption--distance relation, we also constrain the distance to the pulsar to the range of 0.7--2 kpc. Besides the pulsar and its compact nebula, we detect regions of weak large-scale diffuse non-thermal emission in the pulsar field and discuss their possible nature.
Comment: 15 pages, 10 figures, 5 tables
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa287
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2001.10968
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2001.10968
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv