Narrow absorption features in the co-added XMM-Newton RGS spectra of isolated Neutron Stars

We co-added the available XMM-Newton RGS spectra for each of the isolated X-ray pulsars RX\,J0720.4\(-\)3125, RX\,J1308.6+2127 (RBS\,1223), RX\,J1605.3+3249 and RX\,J1856.4\(-\)3754 (four members of the "Magnificent Seven") and the "Three Musketeers" Geminga, PSR\,B0656+14 and PS...

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Veröffentlicht in:arXiv.org 2011-09
Hauptverfasser: Hohle, Markus M, Haberl, Frank, Vink, Jacco, de Vries, Cor P, Neuhäuser, Ralph
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Zusammenfassung:We co-added the available XMM-Newton RGS spectra for each of the isolated X-ray pulsars RX\,J0720.4\(-\)3125, RX\,J1308.6+2127 (RBS\,1223), RX\,J1605.3+3249 and RX\,J1856.4\(-\)3754 (four members of the "Magnificent Seven") and the "Three Musketeers" Geminga, PSR\,B0656+14 and PSR\,B1055-52. We confirm the detection of a narrow absorption feature at 0.57 keV in the co-added RGS spectra of RX\,J0720.4\(-\)3125 and RX\,J1605.3+3249 (including most recent observations). In addition we found similar absorption features in the spectra of RX\,J1308.6+2127 (at 0.53 keV) and maybe PSR\,B1055-52 (at 0.56 keV). The absorption feature in the spectra of RX\,J1308.6+2127 is broader than the feature e.g. in RX\,J0720.4\(-\)3125. The narrow absorption features are detected with 2\(\sigma\) to 5.6\(\sigma\) significance. Although very bright and frequently observed, there are no absorption features visible in the spectra of RX\,J1856.4\(-\)3754 and PSR\,B0656+14, while the co-added XMM-Newton RGS spectrum of Geminga has not enough counts to detect such a feature. We discuss a possible origin of these absorption features as lines caused by the presence of highly ionised oxygen (in particular OVII and/or OVI at 0.57 keV) in the interstellar medium and absorption in the neutron star atmosphere, namely the absorption features at 0.57 keV as gravitational redshifted (\(g_{r}\)=1.17) OVIII.
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.1109.2506