Neutron Star Thermal Emission and Magnetic Fields

We request 50 ks of XMM time for observations of theradio pulsars PSRs B0154+61 and B1916+14 in order todetect cooling thermal emission from their surfaces.These sources are young, nearby, have low spindownluminosities, which implies that there will belittle contamination from nonthermal processes, and,of particular interest, have large magnetic fields.The requested observations will cleanly test modelpredictions for the dependence of the properties ofcooling radiation on the stellar magnetic field. truncated!, Please see actual data for full text [truncated!, Please see actual data for full text]