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Title:
Magnetar-Like Emission from the Young Pulsar in Kes 75
Authors:
Gavriil, F. P.; Gonzalez, M. E.; Gotthelf, E. V.; Kaspi, V. M.; Livingstone, M. A.; Woods, P. M.
Affiliation:
AA(NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 662, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA.; Center for Research and Exploration in Space Science and Technology, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA.), AB(Department of Physics, McGill University, 3600 University Street, Montreal, QC H3A 2T8, Canada.), AC(Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory, Columbia University, 550 West 120th Street, New York, NY 10027–6001, USA.), AD(Department of Physics, McGill University, 3600 University Street, Montreal, QC H3A 2T8, Canada.), AE(Department of Physics, McGill University, 3600 University Street, Montreal, QC H3A 2T8, Canada.), AF(Dynetics, 1000 Explorer Boulevard, Huntsville, AL 25806, USA.; National Space Science and Technology Center, 320 Sparkman Drive, Huntsville, AL 35805, USA.)
Publication:
Science, Volume 319, Issue 5871, pp. 1802- (2008).
Publication Date:
03/2008
Category:
ASTRONOMY
Origin:
SCIENCE
DOI:
10.1126/science.1153465
Bibliographic Code:
2008Sci...319.1802G

Abstract

We report the detection of magnetar-like x-ray bursts from the young pulsar PSR J1846‑0258, at the center of the supernova remnant Kes 75. This pulsar, long thought to be exclusively rotation-powered, has an inferred surface dipolar magnetic field of 4.9 × 1013 gauss, which is higher than those of the vast majority of rotation-powered pulsars, but lower than those of the approximately 12 previously identified magnetars. The bursts were accompanied by a sudden flux increase and an unprecedented change in timing behavior. These phenomena lower the magnetic and rotational thresholds associated with magnetar-like behavior and suggest that in neutron stars there exists a continuum of magnetic activity that increases with inferred magnetic field strength.
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