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Scientific paper
Apr 2007
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007atnf.prop..647p&link_type=abstract
ATNF proposal P573, Semester: April, 2007
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Stellar, Galactic, Parkes
Scientific paper
We ask to search for radio pulsations in the transient Anomalous X-ray Pulsar (AXP) CXOU J164710.2-455216, located in the Galactic stellar cluster Westerlund 1. To date, this is the second known transient AXP. The only other similar source, XTE J1810-197, has been recently discovered to emit strong pulsed radio emission, starting about 12-18 months after an X-ray outburst. Our target source, CXOU J164710.2-455216, experienced an X-ray outburst on September 2006 and we propose to regularly monitor it (twice a month) along the next term in order to be able to detect and study in detail the onset of the possible radio emission. Discovering a new radio pulsar associated with a transient AXP will allow to unambigously link the starting of a radio emission phase with the occurrence of on X-ray outburst in this class of neutron stars. That may greatly contribute to clarify the nature of the radio emission mechanism in the AXPs and the relation between this class of neutron stars and the canonical radio pulsars.
Burgay Marta
Colpi Monica
Israel GianLuca
Perna Rosalba
Possenti Andrea
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