Maitra, C.C.MaitraEsposito, P.P.EspositoTiengo, A.A.TiengoBallet, J.J.BalletHaberl, F.F.HaberlDai, S.S.DaiFilipovic, M. D.M. D.FilipovicPILIA, MauraMauraPILIA2022-03-242022-03-2420211745-3925http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/31866We report here on the discovery with XMM-Newton of pulsations at 22 ms from the central compact source associated with IKT16, a supernova remnant in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). The measured spin period and spin period derivative correspond to 21.7661076(2) ms and $2.9(3)\times10^{-14}$ s,s$^{-1}$, respectively. Assuming standard spin-down by magnetic dipole radiation, the spin-down power corresponds to $1.1\times10^{38}$,erg,s$^{-1}$ implying a Crab-like pulsar. This makes it the most energetic pulsar discovered in the SMC so far and a close analogue of PSR J0537--6910, a Crab-like pulsar in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The characteristic age of the pulsar is 12 kyr. Having for the first time a period measure for this source, we also searched for the signal in archival data collected in radio with the Parkes telescope and in Gamma-rays with the Fermi/LAT, but no evidence for pulsation was found in these energy bands.STAMPAenArticle10.1093/mnrasl/slab0502-s2.0-85114653095https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/article/507/1/L1/6290506?login=truehttp://arxiv.org/abs/2105.07779v1FIS/05 - ASTRONOMIA E ASTROFISICAERC sectors::Physical Sciences and Engineering