Post-glitch variability in the Anomalous X-ray Pulsar 1RXS J170849.0-400910

Details Post-glitch variability in the Anomalous X-ray Pulsar 1RXS J170849.0-400910 Post-glitch variability in the Anomalous X-ray Pulsar 1RXS J170849.0-400910

2005-05-19

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0505400v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 361 (2005) 710-718

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

accepted for publication in MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.09201.x

We report on the first XMM-Newton observation of the Anomalous X-ray Pulsar 1RXS J170849.0-400910. The source was observed in 2003 August and was found at a flux level a factor of about two lower than previous observations. Moreover, a significant spectral evolution appears to be present, the source exhibiting a much softer spectrum than in the past. Comparison of the present properties of 1RXS J170849.0-400910 with those from archival data shows a clear correlation between the X-ray flux and the spectral hardness. In particular, the flux and the spectral hardness reached a maximum level close to the two glitches the source experienced in 1999 and in 2001, and successively decreased. Although the excellent XMM-Newton spectral resolution should in principle allow us to detect the absorption line reported in a phase-resolved spectrum with BeppoSAX and interpreted as a cyclotron feature, we found no absorption features, neither in the phase averaged spectrum nor in the phase resolved spectra. We discuss in detail both the possibilities that the feature in the BeppoSAX data may have resulted from a spurious detection or that it is real and intrinsically variable. We then discuss a possible explanation for the glitches and for the softening of the source emission which followed the flux decrease, in the framework of the magnetar model.

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