Discovery of X-ray pulsation from the Geminga-like pulsar PSR J2021+ 4026

LCC Lin, CY Hui, CP Hu, JHK Wu… - The Astrophysical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
LCC Lin, CY Hui, CP Hu, JHK Wu, RHH Huang, L Trepl, J Takata, KA Seo, Y Wang, Y Chou
The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2013iopscience.iop.org
We report the discovery of an X-ray periodicity of∼ 265.3 ms from a deep XMM-Newton
observation of the radio-quiet γ-ray pulsar, PSR J2021+ 4026, located at the edge of the
supernova remnant G78. 2+ 2.1 (γ-Cygni). The detected frequency is consistent with the γ-
ray pulsation determined by the observation of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope at
the same epoch. The X-ray pulse profile resembles the modulation of a hot spot on the
surface of the neutron star. The phase-averaged spectral analysis also suggests that the …
Abstract
We report the discovery of an X-ray periodicity of∼ 265.3 ms from a deep XMM-Newton observation of the radio-quiet γ-ray pulsar, PSR J2021+ 4026, located at the edge of the supernova remnant G78. 2+ 2.1 (γ-Cygni). The detected frequency is consistent with the γ-ray pulsation determined by the observation of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope at the same epoch. The X-ray pulse profile resembles the modulation of a hot spot on the surface of the neutron star. The phase-averaged spectral analysis also suggests that the majority of the observed X-rays have thermal origins. This is the third member in the class of radio-quiet pulsars with significant pulsations detected from both X-ray and γ-ray regimes.
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