No detectable radio emission from the magnetar-like pulsar in Kes 75

0258 in the supernova remnant Kes 75 was recently shown to have exhibited magnetar-like X-ray bursts in mid-2006. Radio emission has not yet been observed from this source, but other magnetar-like sources have exhibited transient radio emission following X-ray bursts. We report on a deep

1.9 \text{GHz}

radio observation of PSR J1846

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0258 with the 100-m Green Bank Telescope in late 2007 designed to search for radio pulsations or bursts from this target. We have also analyzed three shorter serendipitous

1.4 \text{GHz}

radio observations of the source taken with the 64-m Parkes telescope during the 2006 bursting period. We detected no radio emission from PSR J1846

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0258 in either the Green Bank or Parkes datasets. We place an upper limit of

4.9 \mu\text{Jy}

on coherent pulsed emission from PSR J1846

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0258 based on the 2007 November 2 observation, and an upper limit of

27 \mu\text{Jy}

around the time of the X-ray bursts. Serendipitously, we observed radio pulses from the nearby RRAT J1846

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02, and place a 90% confidence level upper limit on its period derivative of

7.3\times 10^{-14}

, implying its surface dipole magnetic field is less than

1.7\times 10^{13} \text{G}

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