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The recent discovery of a central compact object (CCO) within the supernova remnant HESS J1731-347, characterized by a mass of approximately $0.77^{+0.20}_{-0.17} M_{\odot}$ and a radius of about $10.4^{+0.86}_{-0.78}$ km, has opened up a…