Long X-ray flares from the central source in RCW 103

P. Esposito, A. De Luca, R. Turolla +7

We observed the slowly revolving pulsar 1E 161348-5055 (1E 1613, spin period of 6.67 h) in the supernova remnant RCW 103 twice with XMM-Newton and once with the Very Large Telescop…