Abstract
We report the results of a simultaneous analysis of the Chandra and XMM- Newton data on the pulsar wind nebula DA 495 and its central object, J1952.2+2925, which is presumably a pulsar. The J1952.2+2925 pure thermal spectrum can be equally well described either by the blackbody model with a temperature of 215 eV and an emitting area radius of 0.6 km or magnetized neutron star atmosphere models with temperatures of 80-90 eV. We also used the high temporal resolution XMM-Newton/EPIC-pn data to search for pulsations from J1952.2+2925. No pulsations were found so we set an upper limit for the pulsed fraction which is 40%. Using of the interstellar absorption-distance relation allowed us to estimate the distance to DA 495, which lies between 1 and 5 kpc.
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