Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2004-03-16
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 351 (2004) 1099
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
12 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.07854.x
We present a reanalysis of the X-ray data for RX J0720.4-3125 presented in Zane et al. (2002), using more data recently available from XMM-Newton and Chandra. This analysis also corrects the Rosat data used in that paper to the TDB time system, incorporates the revised XMM-Newton barycentric correction available since then, and corrects the definition of the instantaneous period in the maximum likelihood periodogramme search. However, we are now unable to find a single coherent period that is consistent with all Rosat, Chandra and XMM-Newton datasets. From an analysis of the separate datasets, we have derived limits on the period change of Pdot = 1.4+/-0.6x10^-13 s/s at 99% confidence level. This is stronger than the value presented in Zane et al. (2002), but sufficiently similar that their scientific conclusions remain unchanged. We examine the implications in more detail, and find that RX J0720.4-3125 can have been born as a magnetar provided that it has a young age of ~10^4 yr. A more conservative interpretation is that the field strength has remained relatively unchanged at just over 10^13 G, over the ~10^6 yr lifetime of the star.
Cropper Mark
Haberl Frank
Zane Silvia
Zavlin Vyacheslav
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