New faint X-ray thermal isolated neutron star candidates

Details New faint X-ray thermal isolated neutron star candidates New faint X-ray thermal isolated neutron star candidates

Oct 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006xmm..prop..196p&link_type=abstract

XMM-Newton Proposal ID #05053202

Physics

Supernovae, Supernova Remnants, Diffuse (Galactic) Emission And Isolated Neutron Stars, Rxh0920, Rxp1027, Xmm-Newton Proposal 05053202

Scientific paper

We propose XMM-Newton observations of three new X-ray faint isolated neutron star candidates with thermal X-ray emission. EPIC data are needed to test X-ray variability and will yield constraints on the spectral properties. Furthermore, the proposed observations will improve the positional accuracy, necessary for follow-up optical observations. All the recent surveys concentrated only on the brightest ROSAT sources. The distribution models of the X-ray thermal neutron stars within our galaxy suffer from missing faint sources.Including deep ROSAT pointed observations we propose for the first time candidates one to two orders of magnitudes weaker than the faintest known isolated neutron star. As optical reference we use the Sloan survey, the deepest large-area optical survey currently available.

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