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X-ray counterpart candidates for six new $\gamma$-ray pulsars

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2018-02-13 v1

Abstract

Using archival X-ray data we have found point-like X-ray counterpart candidates positionally coincident with six γ\gamma-ray pulsars discovered recently in the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope data by the Einstein@Home project. The candidates for PSRs J0002++6216, J0554++3107, J1844-0346 and J1105-6037 are detected with Swift, and those for PSRs J0359++5414 and J2017++3625 are detected with Chandra. Despite a low count statistics for some candidates, assuming plausible constraints on the absorbing column density towards the pulsars, we show that X-ray spectral properties for all of them are consistent with those observed for other pulsars. J0359++5414 is the most reliably identified object. We detect a nebula around it, whose spectrum and extent suggest that this is a pulsar wind nebula powered by the pulsar. Associations of J0002++6216 and J1844-0346 with supernova remnants CTB 1 and G28.6-0.1 are proposed.

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@article{arxiv.1802.03985,
  title  = {X-ray counterpart candidates for six new $\gamma$-ray pulsars},
  author = {Dmitry A. Zyuzin and Anna V. Karpova and Yura A. Shibanov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.03985},
  year   = {2018}
}

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10 pages, 6 figures, published in MNRAS