Observation and Search for Rotation Powered Radio Pulsars with XMM

GTDeep exposures of a small set of Xray emitting isolated pulsars are made toobtain spectra with excellent statistics. Complementary moderate exposures aremade for a selected sample of candidate radio pulsars for the detection of Xrayemission. The proposed targets have been selected in a way to represent the spanof pulsar characteristics adequately. The special combination of the twoobservation strategies guarantees a progress in our understanding of pulsars andmoreover of the general nature of neutron stars. truncated!, Please see actual data for full text [truncated!, Please see actual data for full text]