X-ray and optical observations of the closest isolated radio pulsar

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2011-01-26

arxiv.org/abs/1101.5100v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

5 pages, 3 figures, MNRAS in press

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With a parallactic distance of 170 pc, PSR J2144-3933 is the closest isolated radio pulsar currently known. It is also the slowest (P = 8.51 s) and least energetic (Edot = 2.6E28 erg/s) radio pulsar; its radio emission is difficult to account for with standard pulsar models, since the position of PSR J2144-3933 in the period-period derivative diagram is far beyond the typical radio `death lines'. Here we present the first deep X-ray and optical observations of PSR J2144-3933, performed in 2009 with XMM-Newton and European Southern Observatory (ESO)/Very Large Telescope (VLT), from which we derive, assuming a blackbody emission spectrum, a surface temperature upper limit of 2.3E5 K for a 13 km radius neutron star, 4.4E5 K for a 500 m radius hot spot and 1.9E6 K for a 10 m radius polar cap. In addition, our non-detection of PSR J2144-3933 constrains its non-thermal luminosity to be <30 per cent and <2 per cent of the pulsar rotational energy loss in the 0.5-2 keV X-ray band and in the B optical band, respectively.

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