Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
May 2011
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011aas...21823202p&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #218, #232.02; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 43, 2011
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
Very few old radio pulsars are detected in X-rays. These objects are in general very faint due to their cold surfaces and relatively low spin-down powers. Yet, old radio pulsars appear to convert their spin-down energy more efficiently into X-ray emission than their younger relatives. It is unclear how much of this X-ray emission can be attributed to thermally emitting, hot polar caps or to magnetospheric emission. The evolution of NS magnetospheres with age and the polar cap heating mechanism are both interesting for the entire NS population, but can be particularly well studied in the case of old X-ray detected radio pulsars.
Here, we present recent Chandra observations of the 4.25e7 yrs old radio pulsar PSR B1451-68. The spectrum of the found X-ray source can be described by a power law with photon index ˜ 2.7. Its isotropic luminosity is L_X ˜ 1.7e30 d^2_450pc erg/s (0.3 keV to 8keV), which corresponds to a high X-ray efficiency of 8e-3. We discuss the influence of a nearby star on the detected X-ray emission.
Garmire Gordon P.
Pavlov George G.
Posselt Bettina
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