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The Fast and the Furious: Energetic Phenomena in Isolated Neutron Stars, Pulsar Wind Nebulae & Supernova Remnants 22−24 May 2013 European Space Astronomy Centre Villafranca del Castillo Madrid, Spain A conference organised by the European Space Agency XMM-Newton Science Operations Centre ABSTRACT BOOK Oral Communications and Posters Edited by Andy Pollock with the help of Cristina Hernandez and Jan-Uwe Ness Organising Committees Scientific Organising Committee Sandro Mereghetti (Chair) INAF, IASF-Milano, Italy Werner Becker MPE, Garching, Germany Andrei Bykov Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia Wim Hermsen SRON, Utrecht, The Netherlands Victoria Kaspi McGill University, Montreal, Canada Demosthenes Kazanas NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt MD, USA Chryssa Kouveliotou NASA/MSFC, Huntsville AL, USA Dong Lai Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Kazuo Makishima University of Tokyo, Japan Sergey Popov Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow, Russia Norbert Schartel (co-Chair) XMM-Newton SOC, Madrid, Spain Patrick Slane CfA, Cambridge MA, USA Luigi Stella INAF, Rome, Italy Diego Torres IEEC-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain Anna Watts University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Martin C. Weisskopf NASA/MSFC, Huntsville AL, USA Silvia Zane MSSL-UCL, Dorking, Surrey, UK Local Organising Committee (XMM-Newton Science Operations Centre) Jan-Uwe Ness (Chair) Michelle Arpizou Matthias Ehle Carlos Gabriel Aitor Ibarra Andy Pollock Richard Saxton Martin Stuhlinger Contents 1 Invited Speakers 3 Review of the theory of PWNe Niccol`oBucciantini . 4 Multi-wavelength Observations of Known, and Searches for New, Gamma-ray Binaries Robin Corbet, Chi Cheung, Malcolm Coe, Joel Coley, Davide Donato, Philip Ed- wards, Vanessa McBride, M. Virginia McSwain, Jamie Stevens . 4 TeV emitting PWNe: abundant and diverse high energy engines of all ages Arache Djannati-Atai . 5 Magnetar Bursts at All Scales Ersin Gogus . 5 Timing Solutions for all three Anti-Magnetars Eric Gotthelf, Jules Halpern . 6 The Magnificent Seven: Nearby, Thermally Emitting, Isolated Neutron Stars Frank Haberl . 6 X-ray observations of pulsar-wind nebulae: current status and future prospects Oleg Kargaltsev, George Pavlov, Martin Durant . 7 Gamma-ray emission of Crab pulsar and the nebula Maxim Lyutikov . 7 X-ray observations of rotation-powered pulsars George Pavlov, Oleg Kargaltsev, Bettina Posselt, Martin Durant . 8 Magneto-thermal evolution of strongly magnetized neutron stars. Jose Pons . 8 Magnetars: explosive neutron stars with extreme magnetic fields Nanda Rea . 9 Gamma-ray Pulsars with the Fermi Satellite David Smith . 9 Suzaku Observations of Gamma-Ray Binaries and Prospects for ASTRO-H Takaaki Tanaka . 10 The Flaring Crab Nebula: Surprises and Challenges Marco Tavani . 10 High-energy pulsar models: Developments and new questions Christo Venter, Alice K. Harding . 11 Large Observatory for X-ray Timing (LOFT) M. van der Klis . 11 3 2 High-energy emission from rotation-powered neutron stars 13 2D Particle-in-Cell Simulation of the Pulsar Polar-cap Discharge Alexander Yuran Chen, Andrei Beloborodov . 14 Multi-component X-ray Spectral Analysis of the Double Pulsar System J0737-3039 Elise Egron, Alberto Pellizzoni, Maria Noemi Iacolina . 14 XMM-Newton revealed synchronous X-ray and radio mode changing in a pulsar: a bi- stable emission behaviour requiring global magnetospheric changes Wim Hermsen . 15 New Fermi-LAT Gamma-ray Pulsars Using Radio Ephemerides Xian Hou, David Smith . 15 Long Term X-Ray Timing of the Double Pulsar PSR J0737-3039 Maria Noemi Iacolina, Alberto Pellizzoni, Elise Egron, Paolo Esposito . 16 Particle acceleration region of old pulsars Shota Kisaka, Shuta Tanaka . 16 The soft gamma-ray pulsar population and its link to the Fermi LAT pulsar population: a full high-energy picture Lucien Kuiper, Wim Hermsen . 17 Deep X-ray Observations of the High-Magnetic-Field Radio Pulsar J1119-6127 C.-Y. Ng, V. M. Kaspi, W.C.G. Ho, P. Weltevrede, S. Bogdanov, R. Shannon, M. E. Gonzalez . 17 A unified polar cap/striped wind model for pulsed radio and gamma-ray emission in pulsars J´erˆomeP´etri . 18 Plasma-producing Gaps in the Global Structure of the Pulsar Force-free Magnetosphere Svetlana Petrova . 18 Physical links between the radio and high-energy emissions of pulsars Svetlana Petrova . 19 Probing the cooling of the Central Compact Object in the Cas A supernova remnant Bettina Posselt, George Pavlov, Valery Suleimanov . 19 X-ray observations and the search for Fermi-LAT gamma-ray pulsars Pablo Saz Parkinson, Andrea Belfiore, Patrizia Caraveo, Andrea De Luca, Martino Marelli .......................................... 20 Spectral properties and HE behaviour of few bright and young Fermi PSRs Thomas Tavernier . 20 Soft Gamma-ray Pulsars Yu Wang, Jumpei Takata, Kwong Sang Cheng . 21 3 Multiwavelength properties and unification scenarios for different classes of neu- tron stars 23 Fermi-LAT observations and a broadband study of supernova remnant CTB 109 Daniel Castro . 24 Constraining Magnetar Bursts Properties from Energy-Dependent Variability Caroline D’Angelo . 24 The first complete X-ray view of the Supernova Remnant Puppis A Gloria Dubner, Nora Loiseau, Pedro Rodr´ıguez-Pascual, Michael J.S. Smith, Elsa Giacani, Gabriela Castelletti . 25 Suzaku View of Recent Magnetar and Magnetar-related Objects Teruaki Enoto, Kazuo Makishima, Shinpei Shibata, Yujin Nakagawa, Takanori Sakamoto . 25 Modulating magnetar emission by magneto-elastic oscillations Michael Gabler, Pablo Cerd´a-Dur´an, Jos´eAntonio Font, Nikolaos Stergioulas, Ewald M¨uller........................................... 26 The Progenitor and Pulsar Birth Properties of Composite SNR Kes 75 Joseph Gelfand, Patrick Slane, Tea Temim . 26 Observationally consistent evolution scenario for neutron stars in LMXBs Mikhail Gusakov, Andrey Chugunov, Elena Kantor . 27 New instability windows for rotating neutron stars Mikhail Gusakov, Andrey Chugunov, Elena Kantor . 27 Hard X-ray emission from magnetars: fit by a physical model and resulting constraints Romain Hascoet, Andrei M. 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Andrea Tiengo . 35 The maximum period of pulsars as a probe of fundamental physics Daniele Vigan`o,Jose Antonio Pons, Nanda Rea . 35 Solving the Vela pulsar infrared excess problem Dima Zyuzin, Yuri Shibanov, Andrei Danilenko, Sergey Zharikov, Ronald Mennick- ent ............................................ 36 4 Energetic phenomena in non-accreting neutron stars and their effects on the surroundings 37 Modeling statistical properties of the X-ray emission from aged Pulsar Wind Nebulae Rino Bandiera . 38 RRAT J1819-1458 and its extended X-ray emission Ascensi´onCamero Arranz, Nanda Rea . 38 Particle Acceleration and Magnetic Fields: Looking at the Northwestern Rim of RCW 86 with Chandra Daniel Castro . 39 Magnetic Field Instabilities in Neutron Stars Riccardo Ciolfi, Luciano Rezzolla . 39 The Guitar Nebula Studies at Optical Wavelengths Andrei Danilenko, Victoria Komarova, Alexei Moiseev, Yuri Shibanov . 40 A fast-moving radio-quiet pulsar with a very unusual X-ray trail Andrea De Luca . 40 The power of X-ray observations in identifying TeV emitting pulsar wind nebulae: The case of HESS J1818−154 Peter Eger, Petter Hofverberg, H.E.S.S. 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    Stellar Evolution Card Set Description and Links 1. Tycho’s SNR (NASA/Chandra X-ray image) Type Ia supernova remnant – thermonuclear explosion of a white dwarf http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2011/tycho2/ 2. Protostar formation (NASA/JPL/Caltech/Spitzer/R. Hurt illustration) A young star/protostar forming within a cloud of gas and dust http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/images/1852-ssc2007-14d-Planet-Forming-Disk- Around-a-Baby-Star 3. The Crab Nebula (NASA/Chandra X-ray/Hubble optical/Spitzer IR composite image) A type II supernova remnant with a millisecond pulsar stellar core http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2009/crab/ 4. Cygnus X-1 (NASA/Chandra/M Weiss illustration) A stellar mass black hole in an X-ray binary system with a main sequence companion star http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2011/cygx1/ 5. White dwarf with red giant companion star (ESO/M. Kornmesser illustration/video) A white dwarf accreting material from a red giant companion could result in a Type Ia supernova http://www.eso.org/public/videos/eso0943b/ 6. Eight Burst Nebula (NASA/Hubble optical image) A planetary nebula with a white dwarf and companion star binary system in its center http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap150607.html 7. The Carina Nebula star-formation complex (NASA/Hubble optical image) A massive and active star formation region with newly forming protostars and stars http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0707b/ 8. NGC 6826 (Chandra X-ray/Hubble optical composite image) A planetary nebula with a white dwarf stellar core in its center http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2012/pne/ 9.