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Title:
Distances to Anomalous X-Ray Pulsars Using Red Clump Stars
Authors:
Durant, Martin; van Kerkwijk, Marten H.
Affiliation:
AA(Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto, 60 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3H8, Canada), AB(Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto, 60 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3H8, Canada)
Publication:
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 650, Issue 2, pp. 1070-1081. (ApJ Homepage)
Publication Date:
10/2006
Origin:
UCP
ApJ Keywords:
ISM: Dust, Extinction, Stars: Pulsars: General, Stars: Distances
DOI:
10.1086/506380
Bibliographic Code:
2006ApJ...650.1070D

Abstract

We identify ``red clump stars''-core helium-burning giants-among 2MASS stars and use them to measure the run of reddening with distance in the direction of each of the Galactic anomalous X-ray pulsars (AXPs). We combine this with extinction estimates from X-ray spectroscopy to infer distances and find that the locations of all AXPs are consistent with being in Galactic spiral arms. We also find that the 2-10 keV luminosities implied by our distances are remarkably similar for all AXPs, being all around ~1.3×1035 ergs s-1. Furthermore, using our distances to estimate effective blackbody-emitting radii, we find that the radii are tightly anticorrelated with pulsed fraction and somewhat less tightly anticorrelated with blackbody temperature. We find no obvious relationship of any property with the dipole magnetic field strength inferred from the spin-down rate.
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