The discovery of quiescent X-ray emission from SAX J1808.4-3658, the transient 2.5ms pulsar

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2000-05-22

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0005429v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages plus 1 ps figure. Accepted for publication on ApJ Letters

Scientific paper

10.1086/312765

We report on a 20 ks BeppoSAX observation of the transient 2.5 ms X-ray pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658 in its quiescent state. A source at a level of ~ 3 x 10^-3 c/s was detected with the BeppoSAX/MECS at a position consistent with that of SAX J1808.4-3658. The inferred 0.5-10 keV luminosity was to that measured from other quiescent low mass X-ray transients hosting an old neutron star. This result is discussed in the light of the propeller and radio pulsar shock emission models for the quiescent emission of these systems.

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