Discovery of hard non - thermal pulsed X - ray emission from the anomalous X - ray pulsar 1 E 1841 - 045

We report the discovery of non-thermal pulsed X-ray/soft γ-ray emission up to ∼ 150 keV from the anomalous X-ray pulsar AXP 1E 1841-045 located near the centre of supernova remnant Kes 73 using RXTE PCA and HEXTE data. The morphology of the double-peaked pulse profile changes rapidly with energy from 2 keV up to ∼ 8 keV, above which the pulse shape remains more or less stable. The pulsed spectrum is very hard, its shape above 10 keV can be described well by a power law with a photon index of 0.94 ± 0.16. 1E 1841-045 is the first AXP for which such very-hard pulsed emission has been detected, which points to an origin in the magnetosphere of a magnetar. We have also derived the total emission spectrum from the Kes73/1E 1841-045 complex for the ∼ 2-270 keV energy range using RXTE HEXTE and XMM-Newton PN data. A comparison of the total emission from the complex with the pulsed+DC emission from 1E 1841-045 as derived from Chandra ACIS CC-mode data (Morii et al. 2003) leaves little room for emission from Kes 73 at energies near 7 keV or above. This suggests that the HEXTE spectrum above ∼ 10 keV, satisfactorily described by a power law with index 1.47 ± 0.05, is dominated by emission from 1E 1841-045. In that case the pulsed fraction for energies above 10 keV would increase from about 25% near 10 keV to 100% near 100 keV. The origin of this DC-component extending up to ∼ 100 keV is probably magnetospheric and could be a manifestation of pulsed emission which is " on " for all phases.