Magnetar-like X-Ray Bursts Suppress Pulsar Radio Emission

Archibald, R. F.; Burgay, M.; Lyutikov, M.; Kaspi, V. M.; Esposito, P.; Israel, G.; Kerr, M.; Possenti, A.; Rea, N.; Sarkissian, J.; Scholz, P.; Tendulkar, S. P.

doi:10.3847/2041-8213/aa9371

Title: Magnetar-like X-Ray Bursts Suppress Pulsar Radio Emission

Journal Article · Thu Nov 02 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · The Astrophysical Journal. Letters (Online)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/aa9371· OSTI ID:1527167

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McGill Univ., Montreal, QC (Canada); Univ. of Toronto, ON (Canada)
Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Selargius (Italy). Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari
McGill Univ., Montreal, QC (Canada); Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States)
McGill Univ., Montreal, QC (Canada)
Univ. of Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Roma (Italy). Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma
Naval Research Lab. (NRL), Washington, DC (United States)
Univ. of Amsterdam (Netherlands); Institute of Space Sciences (ICE, CSICIEEC), Barcelona (Spain)
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Parkes, NSW (Australia). Parkes Observatory
National Research Council of Canada, Penticton, BC (Canada)

Rotation-powered pulsars and magnetars are two different observational manifestations of neutron stars: rotation-powered pulsars are rapidly spinning objects that are mostly observed as pulsating radio sources, while magnetars, neutron stars with the highest known magnetic fields, often emit short-duration X-ray bursts. In this work, we report simultaneous observations of the high-magnetic-field radio pulsar PSR J1119-6127 at X-ray, with XMM-Newton and NuSTAR, and at radio energies with the Parkes radio telescope, during a period of magnetar-like bursts. The rotationally powered radio emission shuts off coincident with the occurrence of multiple X-ray bursts and recovers on a timescale of ~70 s. These observations of related radio and X-ray phenomena further solidify the connection between radio pulsars and magnetars and imply that the pair plasma produced in bursts can disrupt the acceleration mechanism of radio-emitting particles.

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Research Organization:: Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Fusion Energy Sciences (FES)

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OSTI ID:: 1527167

Journal Information:: The Astrophysical Journal. Letters (Online), Vol. 849, Issue 2; ISSN 2041-8213

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