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Timing six energetic rotation-powered X-ray pulsars, including the fast-spinning young PSR J0058-7218 and Big Glitcher PSR J0537-6910

  • Wynn C. G. Ho
  • , Lucien Kuiper
  • , Cristobal M. Espinoza
  • , Sebastien Guillot
  • , Paul S. Ray
  • , D. A. Smith
  • , Slavko Bogdanov
  • , Danai Antonopoulou
  • , Zaven Arzoumanian
  • , Michal Bejger
  • , Teruaki Enoto
  • , Paolo Esposito
  • , Alice K. Harding
  • , Brynmor Haskell
  • , Natalia Lewandowska
  • , Chandreyee Maitra
  • , Georgios Vasilopoulos

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Abstract

Measuring a pulsar's rotational evolution is crucial to understanding the nature of the pulsar. Here we provide updated timing models for the rotational evolution of six pulsars, five of which are rotation phase-connected using primarily NICER X-ray data. For the newly-discovered fast energetic young pulsar, PSR J0058-7218, we increase the baseline of its timing model from 1.4 days to 8 months and not only measure more precisely its spin-down rate nudot = (-6.2324+/-0.0001)x10^-11 Hz s^-1 but also for the first time the second time derivative of spin rate nuddot = (4.2+/-0.2)x10^-21 Hz s^-2. For the fastest and most energetic young pulsar, PSR J0537-6910 (with 16 ms spin period), we detect 4 more glitches, for a total of 15 glitches over 4.5 years of NICER monitoring, and show that its spin-down behavior continues to set this pulsar apart from all others, including a long-term braking index n = -1.234+/-0.009 and interglitch braking indices that asymptote to
Original languageEnglish
JournalAstrophys. J.
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 5 May 2022

Keywords

  • astro-ph.HE
  • astro-ph.SR

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