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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 764, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/764/1/1
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pulsars: general; pulsars: individual (PSR B1845-19, PSR J1001-5939, PSR J1734-3333); stars: neutron; X-rays: stars
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- U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory [DE-AC52-07NA27344]
- Killam Research Fellowship
- NSERC
- FQRNT via le Centre de Recherche Astrophysique du Quebec
- Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
- NASA [GO1-12083X]
- STFC [ST/J001562/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/J001562/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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The study of high-magnetic-field pulsars is important for examining the relationships between radio pulsars, magnetars, and X-ray-isolated neutron stars (XINSs). Here, we report on X-ray observations of three such high-magnetic-field radio pulsars. We first present the results of a deep XMM-Newton observation of PSR J1734-3333, taken to follow up on its initial detection in 2009. The pulsar's spectrum is well fit by a blackbody with a temperature of 300 +/- 60 eV, with bolometric luminosity L-bb = 2.0(-0.7)(+2.2) x 10(32) erg s(-1) approximate to 0.0036 (E) over dot for a distance of 6.1 kpc. We detect no X-ray pulsations from the source, setting a 1 sigma upper limit on the pulsed fraction of 60% in the 0.5-3 keV band. We compare PSR J1734-3333 to other rotation-powered pulsars of similar age and find that it is significantly hotter, supporting the hypothesis that the magnetic field affects the observed thermal properties of pulsars. We also report on XMM-Newton and Chandra observations of PSRs B1845-19 and J1001-5939. We do not detect either pulsar, setting 3 sigma upper limits on their blackbody temperatures of 48 and 56 eV, respectively. Despite the similarities in rotational properties, these sources are significantly cooler than all but one of the XINSs, which we attribute to the two groups having been born with different magnetic fields and hence evolving differently.
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