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Influence of the Neutron Star 1E 161348–5055 in RCW 103 on the Surrounding Medium

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2013

E. M. Reynoso ,
A. J. Green ,
S. Johnston ,
W. M. Goss ,
G. M. Dubner  and
E. B. Giacani
E. M. Reynoso*
Affiliation:
School of Physics, University of Sydney, Sydney NSW 2006, Australia. Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio, CC 67, Suc 28, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina.
A. J. Green
Affiliation:
School of Physics, University of Sydney, Sydney NSW 2006, Australia.
S. Johnston
Affiliation:
School of Physics, University of Sydney, Sydney NSW 2006, Australia.
W. M. Goss
Affiliation:
National Radio Astronomy Observatory, P. O. Box 0, Socorro, NM 87801, USA.
G. M. Dubner
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio, CC 67, Suc 28, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina.
E. B. Giacani
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio, CC 67, Suc 28, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina.
*
4Author to whom correspondence should be addressed (e-mail: ereynoso@iafe.uba.ar)
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Abstract

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We have carried out a study of the neutral hydrogen in the direction of the X-ray source 1E 161348–5055, a compact central object (CCO) located in the interior of the supernova remnant (SNR) RCW 103. The Hi 21 cm line observations were carried out using the Australia Telescope Compact Array, complemented with single dish data from the Parkes radio telescope to recover information at all spatial scales. We derive a distance to RCW 103 of 3.1 kpc, in agreement with previous distance measurements. We have also detected a small hole in the Hi emission which is positionally and kinematically coincident with the location of the CCO which confirms the association between the SNR and the CCO. This is the third case of a depression in Hi emission seemingly associated with CCOs in SNRs. The characteristic parameters of the holes such as their size, eccentricity and evacuated mass are similar in all three cases. We estimate the absorbing HI column density towards 1E 161348–5055 to be ∼6 × 1021 cm–2, a value compatible with a blackbody solution for the CCO X-ray emission. However, the implied temperature and luminosity are very high compared to most neutron stars. Moreover, the strong long-term variability in X-rays favours the hypothesis that 1E 161348–5055 is an accreting binary source rather than an isolated, cooling neutron star. An analysis of the continuum image obtained at 1.4 GHz from these observations shows no trace of a pulsar wind nebula around 1E 161348–5055, in spite of it being a young object.

Keywords

stars: neutronsupernova remnantsISM: individual: RCW 103X-rays: individual: 1E 161348–5055spectral lines: neutral hydrogen.
Type
Research Article
Information
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , 2004 , pp. 82 - 88
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Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 2004

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