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. Beloborodov, Peter den Hartog . 28 Magnetic fields decay in pulsars: population synthesis and other statistical methods Andrei Igoshev . 28 Deep observations of PSR J0357+3205 with GTC Aida Kirichenko, Sergey Zharikov, Yuri Shibanov, Dima Zyuzin, Peter Shternin, Andrei Danilenko . 29 On the X-ray emission mechanisms of the persistent source and very low-fluence bursts of SGR J0501+4516 Lin Lin, Ersin Gogus . 29 New XMM-Newton observation of the thermally emitting isolated neutron star in the Carina Nebula Adriana Mancini Pires, Christian Motch . 30 Supernova Remnants with Magnetars Jonatan Mart´ın,Nanda Rea, Diego F. Torres . 30 The shape of the cutoff in the synchrotron emission of SN 1006 observed with XMM- Newton Marco Miceli, Fabrizio Bocchino, Anne Decourchelle, Jacco Vink, Sjors Broersen, Salvatore Orlando . 31 Search for correlation between giant radio pulses and hard X-ray pulses from the Crab pulsar Ryo Mikami, Toshio Terasawa, Kazuhiro Takefuji, Mamoru Sekido, Hiroshi Takeuchi, Yasuyuki Tanaka, Shota Kisaka, Katsuaki Asano, Nobuyuki Kawai, Kumiko Nagata 31 Suzaku Studies of the Supernova Remnant CTB109 and its Central Magnetar 1E 2259+586 Toshio Nakano, Kazuo Makishima . 32 Equilibrium Models for Magnetized Neutron Stars in General Relativity Antonio G. Pili, Niccolo’ Bucciantini, Del Zanna Luca . 32 Unifying neutron stars: advances, problems and initial parameters Sergey Popov, Andrei Igoshev, Roberto Turolla . 33 The Magnificent Seven see (Infra)red Bettina Posselt, Sergey Popov, George Pavlov . 33 X-ray follow-up observations of confirmed and potential TeV supernova remnants Gerd Puehlhofer, . 34 Westerlund1 Transient AXP: Long-term Phase-coherent X-ray Timing & Pulse-Phase Spectroscopy of CXOU J164710.2-4552 Guillermo-Andres Rodriguez-Castillo, GianLuca Israel . 34 Is there a magnetar wind nebula around Swift J1834.9-0846? 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. Collaboration . 41 ”Black widow” binary systems Jorge Ernesto Horvath, Maria Alejandra De Vito, Omar Benvenuto . 41 The stability of strong waves and its implications for pulsar wind shocks Iwona Mochol, John G. Kirk . 42 Supernova Remnant Candidates in the ROSAT All-Sky Survey Tobias Prinz, Werner Becker . 42 Intrabinary Shock Emission From Black Widows and Redbacks Mallory Roberts, Maura McLaughlin, Pete Gentile, Ester Aliu, Jason Hessels, Scott Ransom, Paul Ray . 43 Supernova Dust and Ejecta Illuminated