A tale of two populations: Rotating Radio Transients and X-ray Dim Isolated Neutron Stars

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2006-03-10

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0603258v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.Lett. 369 (2006) L23-L26

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages, accepted to MNRAS Letters

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1745-3933.2006.00166.x

We highlight similarities between recently discovered Rotating Radio Transients and X-ray Dim Isolated Neutron Stars. In particular, it is shown that X-ray Dim Isolated Neutron Stars have a birthrate comparable to that of Rotating Radio Transients. On the contrary, magnetars have too low a formation rate to account for the bulk of the radio transient population. The consequences of the recent detection of a thermal X-ray source associated with one of the Rotating Radio Transients on the proposed scenarios for these sources are also discussed.

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