A tale of two populations: rotating radio transients and X-ray dim isolated neutron stars
Abstract
We highlight similarities between recently discovered rotating radio transients and X-ray dim isolated neutron stars. In particular, it is shown that X-ray dim isolated neutron stars have a birthrate comparable to that of rotating radio transients. On the contrary, magnetars have a formation rate that is too low to account for the bulk of the radio transient population. The consequences of the recent detection of a thermal X-ray source associated with one of the rotating radio transients on the proposed scenarios for these sources are also discussed.
- Publication:
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- June 2006
- DOI:
- 10.1111/j.1745-3933.2006.00166.x
- arXiv:
- arXiv:astro-ph/0603258
- Bibcode:
- 2006MNRAS.369L..23P
- Keywords:
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- stars: evolution;
- stars: neutron;
- pulsars: general;
- Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 5 pages, accepted to MNRAS Letters