PowerPoint Presentation - Isolated Neutron Stars, solid crust

Pulsating neutron stars: 4 so far!

RX J0420: previous pulsation 22.7s , 1s in ROSAT HRI (Haberl et al. 1999).

1 RXS 1308: previous pulsation 5.157 s (Hambaryan et al. 2002)

Þ Haberl et al. 2003: double peaked light curve, P=10.31 s

Þ Haberl et al., 2004 in prep.: spurious. Instead, P= 3.45 s

(4 XMM PN and 4 XMM MOS observations in 2003)

RX J0806.4-4123

Epic-PN (0.12-1.2) keV

RX J072.4-3125

Epic-PN (0.12-1.2) keV

RBS 1223

Epic-PN (0.12-1.2) keV

RX J0420.0-5022

Epic-PN (0.12-0.7) keV