SUMMARY OF SEQUENCE NUMBER 500021
SUMMARY OF SEQUENCE NUMBER 500021
Title: A STUDY OF ANOMALOUS X-RAY PULSARS
Observer: WEISSKOPF
Subject Category: SN, SNR, and isolated NS
Seq: 500021 ObsId: 00725
Long-term Plan bin: no LTS bin
ABSTRACT
The 'anomalous' X-ray pulsars are a small group of very young X-ray pulsars whose properties (period distribution, X-ray spectra, associations with supernova remnants, no evidence for binarity) are strikingly different from those of normal binary X-ray pulsars. Their similarities to soft gamma repeaters supports the idea that they are strongly magnetized (10^14 G) solitary neutron stars ('magnetars'). We propose to make AXAF observations to search for small plerions around them, and to establish the presence of blackbody-like emission from the neutron star surface, both of which would provide strong evidence for the magnetar model.
TARGET SUMMARY
| TARGET NAME |
RA | DEC |
TIME |
SI |
GRAT |
TYPE |
TC |
ROLL |
PRE |
PHASE |
MULTI |
PRI |
| 1E 2259+586 |
345.285833 | 58.878056 |
20.00000 |
ACIS-S |
NONE |
GO |
no |
no |
no |
no |
no |
5 |
IMAGES
(NOTE: RASS images currently only available for targets LTS scheduled on or after Apr-09-2000)
PARAMETERS
Obscat Parameters
