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Magnetar Behavior of a Rotation Powered Pulsar, PSR J1119-6127

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(Aug 25, 2016)

Abstract

Two energetic hard X-ray bursts have recently triggered the Fermi and Swift space observatories from the rotation powered pulsar, PSR J1119-6127. We have performed in depth spectral and temporal analyses of these two events. Our extensive searches in both observatory data for lower luminosity, untriggered, bursts using two independent methods (a signal-to-noise ratio search and a Bayesian blocks based technique), uncovered 10 additional events from the source. We report here on the timing and energetics of the 12 bursts from PSR J1119-6127 during its burst active phase of 2016 July 26 and 28. We also found a softer, extended thermal burst tail emission, which shows evidence of cooling. We discuss here the implications of these results on the nature of this unusual high-field radio pulsar, which firmly place it within the typical magnetar population.

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