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High Resolution Spectroscopy And Timing Of The Isolated Neutron Star RBS 1774The 2004 May 31 XMM-Newton observation was reprocessed using SASv6.0.0 and times of high background were filtered out. The net exposure time remaining was 23 ks. The source was clearly detected in MOS1, MOS2 and PN chips. We performed both timing and spectroscopic analysis on the data. We performed a spectral analysis by fitting data from the three EPIC detectors simultaneously, finding that the broadband spectrum can be represented by a single absorbed blackbody, with kT = 0.10 keV. The fitting revealed the presence of an absorption feature at 0:7 keV, but the data did have enough resolution to allow us to discriminate between an absorption line and an edge. We also tested magnetized models of Pavlov et a1 and Zavlin et al, but found that fits with these models were considerably worse than with a blackbody. For the timing analysis, we extracted the counts within a 3000 radius aperture in both PN and MOS 1 and MOS2 but with the aperture truncated by a chord where it approached the edge of the CCD window in each case: this maximized the counts while avoiding any edge effects. We analyzed PN, MOSl and MOS2 data both individually and combined using the Maximum Likelihood Periodogram technique of Zane et al. (2002) and Cropper et al. (2004). Periods from 10000 s to 30 ms were searched, ensuring that in each case the period grid was 2.5 times better sampled than the Nyquist frequency. The search revealed a significant period at 9.437s. Taken overall, we found the characteristics of RBS 1774 to be remarkably similar to those of another X-ray faint isolated neutron stars. These results were written up for the Astrophysical Journal, and the paper has recently been accepted for publication.
Document ID
20050185232
Acquisition Source
Headquarters
Document Type
Contractor or Grantee Report
Authors
Mushotzky, Richard
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Drake, Jeremy
(Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Cambridge, MA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 23, 2013
Publication Date
May 1, 2005
Subject Category
Astrophysics
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NNG04GK71G
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.
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