Target-Of RXTE Observations of Glitching High-B Radio Pulsars

We recently discovered a high-magnetic-field rotation-powered pulsar undergoing a "magnetar metamorphosis" simultaneously with a rotation glitch, transforming from an ordinary rotation-powered pulsar into a much brighter X-ray source and emitting X-ray bursts. After <8 weeks, the source returned to its normal state. This amazing event, caught serendipitously, suggests that all high-magnetic-field radio pulsars undergo such transient metamorphoses at glitch epochs, but have not been so recognized because of the absence of a sensitive all-sky monitor. We request RXTE ToO observations of high-magnetic-field radio pulsars at epochs of large glitches in order to test this hypothesis.