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Mignani, R. P; de Luca, A; Rea, N; Shearer, A; Collins, S; Torres, D. F; Hadasch, D; Caliandro, A
Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 04/2013, Volume: 430, Issue: 2Journal Article
The Fermi Large Area Telescope discovered the time signature of a radio-silent pulsar coincident with RX J0007.0+7302, a plerion-like X-ray source at the centre of the CTA 1 supernova remnant. The inferred timing parameters of the γ-ray pulsar PSR J0007+7303 (P = 315.8 ms; s s−1) point to a Vela-like neutron star, with an age comparable to that of CTA 1. The PSR J0007+7303 low distance (∼1.4 kpc), interstellar absorption (A V ∼ 1.6), and relatively high energy loss rate ( erg s−1), make it a suitable candidate for an optical follow-up. Here, we present deep optical observations of PSR J0007+7303. The pulsar is not detected in the Gran Telescopio Canarias images down to a limit of r ′ ∼ 27.6 (3σ), the deepest ever obtained for this pulsar, while William Herschel Telescope images yield a limit of V ∼ 26.9. Our r ′-band limit corresponds to an optical emission efficiency . This limit is more constraining than those derived for other Vela-like pulsars, but is still above the measured optical efficiency of the Vela pulsar. We compared the optical upper limits with the extrapolation of the XMM-Newton X-ray spectrum and found that the optical emission is compatible with the extrapolation of the X-ray power-law component, at variance with what is observed, e.g. in the Vela pulsar.
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