A 700 year-old Pulsar in the Supernova Remnant Kes 75

Details A 700 year-old Pulsar in the Supernova Remnant Kes 75 A 700 year-old Pulsar in the Supernova Remnant Kes 75

2000-08-06

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0008097v1

Astrophys.J.542:L37-L40,2000

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, 3 figures, LaTex, emulateapj.sty. Submitted to The Astrophysical Journal

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10.1086/312923

Since their discovery 30 years ago, pulsars have been understood to be neutron stars (NSs) born rotating rapidly (~ 10-100 ms). These neutron stars are thought to be created in supernova explosions involving massive stars, which give rise to expanding supernova remnants (SNRs). With over 220 Galactic SNRs known (Green 1998) and over 1200 radio pulsars detected (Camilo et al. 2000), it is quite surprising that few associations between the two populations have been identified with any certainty. Here we report the discovery of a remarkable 0.3 sec X-ray pulsar, PSR J1846-0258, associated with the supernova remnant Kes 75. With a characteristic age of only 723 yr, consistent with the age of Kes 75, PSR J1846-0258 is the youngest pulsar yet discovered and is being rapidly spun down by torques from a large magnetic dipole of strength ~ 5E13 G, just above the so-called quantum critical field. PSR J1846-0258 resides in this transitional regime where the magnetic field is hypothesized to separate the regular pulsars from the so-called magnetars. PSR J1846-0258 is evidently a Crab-like pulsar, however, its period, spin-down rate, spin-down conversion efficiency, are each an order-of-magnitude greater, likely the result of its extreme magnetic field.

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