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Using XMM-Newton and Chandra, we achieved phase-connected timing of the 105ms X-ray pulsar PSR J1852+0040 that provides the first measurement of thespin-down rate of a member of the class of Central Compact Objects (CCOs) insupernova remnants. We measure P-dot = 8.68(9)E-18, and find no evidence fortiming noise or variations in X-ray flux over 4.8 yr. In the dipole spin-downformalism, this implies a surface magnetic field strength B_s = 3.1E10 G, thesmallest ever measured for a young neutron star, and consistent with being afossil field. In combination with upper limits on B_s from other CCO pulsars,this is strong evidence in favor of the "anti-magnetar" explanation for theirlow luminosity and lack of magnetospheric activity or synchrotron nebulae.While this dipole field is small, it can prevent accretion of sufficientfall-back material so that the observed X-ray luminosity of L_x = 5.3E33(d/7.1kpc)^2 erg/s must instead be residual cooling. The spin-down luminosity of PSRJ1852+0040, E-dot = 3.0E32 erg/s, is an order-of-magnitude smaller than L_x.Fitting of the X-ray spectrum to two blackbodies finds small emitting radii,R_1 = 1.9 km and R_2 = 0.45 km, for components of kT_1 = 0.30 keV and kT_2 =0.52 keV, respectively. Such small, hot regions are ubiquitous among CCOs, andare not yet understood in the context of the anti-magnetar picture becauseanisotropic surface temperature is usually attributed to the effects of strongmagnetic fields.

Spin-down Measurement of PSR J1852+0040 in Kesteven 79: Central Compact Objects as Anti-Magnetars