USING EPIC TO UNRAVEL THE MYSTERY OF CENTRAL COMPACT OBJECTS IN SNRS

The puzzling family of Central Compact Objects (CCOs) in young supernovaremnants is represented by a small (<10) handful of young neutron stars which donot show any standard.. pulsar activity. Their overall properties are largelyunknown. We propose to observe CXO J085201.4461753 and RX J1713.73941, twoamong the least studied members of the class. EPIC unprecedented throughputcoupled to time and spectral resolution will allow for a deep search forpulsations, as well as a detailed phaseresolved spectral analysis in case of apositive periodicity detection. Periodicity and phaseresolved spectra are thekey observations required to unravel the mysterious nature of CCOs and theirpossible relationships with other classes of sources such as AXPs and SGRs. truncated!, Please see actual data for full text [truncated!, Please see actual data for full text]