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 8.0 x 10(-14), implying a characteristic age of 21 kyr and spin-down luminosity of 2.6 x 10(36) ergs s(-1). 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 that 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.
PSR J1016-5857: A young radio pulsar with possible supernova remnant, X-ray, and gamma-ray associations
D'AMICO, NICOLO';
2001-01-01
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 8.0 x 10(-14), implying a characteristic age of 21 kyr and spin-down luminosity of 2.6 x 10(36) ergs s(-1). 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 that 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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