PSR J1016-5857: a young radio pulsar with possible supernova remnant, X-ray, and gamma-ray associations

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10 July 2001

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.astro-ph/0107180

Abstract

We report the discovery of a young and energetic pulsar in the Parkes multibeam survey of the Galactic plane. PSR J1016-5857 has a rotation period of 107 ms and period derivative of 8e-14, implying a characteristic age of 21 kyr and spin-down luminosity of 2.6e36 erg/s. The pulsar is located just outside, and possibly interacting with, the shell supernova remnant G284.3-1.8. Archival X-ray data show a source near the pulsar position which is consistent with emission from a pulsar wind nebula. The pulsar is also located inside the error box of the unidentified EGRET source 3EG J1013-5915, for which it represents a plausible counterpart.

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Published version: The Astrophysical Journal, 557 (1), L51.

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