On the Diversity of Compact Objects within Supernova Remnants II: Energy Loss Mechanisms
arXiv:1610.04685 · doi:10.1093/mnras/stw2693
Abstract
Energy losses from isolated neutron stars are commonly attributed to the emission of electromagnetic radiation from a rotating point-like magnetic dipole in vacuum. This emission mechanism predicts a braking index , which is not observed in highly magnetized neutron stars. Despite this fact, the assumptions of a dipole field and rapid early rotation are often assumed a priori, typically causing a discrepancy between the characteristic age and the associated supernova remnant (SNR) age. We focus on neutron stars with `anomalous' magnetic fields that have established SNR associations and known ages. Anomalous X-ray pulsars (AXPs) and soft gamma repeaters (SGRs) are usually described in terms of the magnetar model, which posits a large magnetic field established by dynamo action. The high magnetic field pulsars (HBPs) have extremely large magnetic fields just above QED scale (but below that of the AXPs and SGRs), and central compact objects (CCOs) may have buried fields that will emerge in the future as nascent magnetars. In the first part of this series we examined magnetic field growth as a method of uniting the CCOs with HBPs and X-ray dim isolated neutron stars (XDINSs) through evolution. In this work we constrain the characteristic age of these neutron stars using the related SNR age for a variety of energy loss mechanisms and allowing for arbitrary initial spin periods. In addition to the SNR age, we also make use of the observed braking indices and X-ray luminosities to constrain the models.
14 pages, 7 figures, 2 tables. Accepted for publication in MNRAS
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