Anomalous X-ray Pulsar 1E 1048.1-5937: Pulsed Flux Flares and Large Torque Variations

Details Anomalous X-ray Pulsar 1E 1048.1-5937: Pulsed Flux Flares and Large Torque Variations Anomalous X-ray Pulsar 1E 1048.1-5937: Pulsed Flux Flares and Large Torque Variations

2004-04-05

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0404113v2

Astrophys.J. 609 (2004) L67-L70

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

11 pages, 2 figures, ApJ Letters accepted. Modifications to the text, calculations and figures. We corrected a problem which r

Scientific paper

10.1086/422751

We report on continued monitoring of the Anomalous X-ray pulsar (AXP) 1E 1048.1-5937 using the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer. We confirm that this pulsar has exhibited significant pulsed flux variability. The principal features of this variability are two pulsed X-ray flares. Both flares lasted several months and had well-resolved few-week-long rises. The long rise times of the flares are a phenomenon not previously reported for this class of object. The epochs of the flare peaks were MJD 52,218.8+/-4.5 and 52,444.4+/-7.0. Both flares had shorter rise than fall times. The flares had peak fluxes of 2.21+/-0.16 and 3.00+/-0.13 times the quiescent value. We estimate a total 2-10 keV energy release of ~2.7x10^40 ergs and ~2.8x10^41 ergs for the flares, assuming a distance of 5 kpc. We also report large (factor of ~12) changes to the pulsar's spin-down rate on time scales of weeks to months, shorter than has been reported previously. We find marginal evidence for correlation between the flux and spin-down rate variability, with probability of nonrandom correlation 6%. We discuss the implications of our findings for AXP models.

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