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致密双星电子回旋脉泽辐射的研究

A search for electron cyclotron maser emission from compact binaries

Gavin Ramsay, Catherine Brocksopp, Kinwah Wu, Bruce Slee, Curtis Saxton

摘要:

单极感应(UI)是一个基本的物理过程,它发生在导体穿过磁场时。据推测,UI运行在RX J 0806 +15和RX J1914+24中,这两颗双星被认为是轨道周期分别为5.4分钟和9.6分钟的超紧凑双星。UI模型预测,这两个源可能是在无线电波长的电子回旋脉泽源。其他被预测会发生UI的系统是具有导电核心的短周期太阳系外类地行星。如果存在UI,则预测将发射圆偏振无线电发射。我们用VLA和ATCA搜索了短周期双星的射电辐射。在一个时期,我们发现了射电源的证据,与RX J 0806 +15的光学位置一致。虽然我们不能完全排除这是RX J 0806 +15的位置与数据简化过程中的伪影之间的偶然对齐,但在5.8 sigma的显著性水平下检测到它并发现它是瞬态的这一事实表明,RX J 0806 +15更有可能是一个瞬态射电源。我们发现圆偏振度的上限为~ 50%。推测的亮度温度超过10^18 K,这对于任何已知的非相干过程来说都太高了,但与脉泽发射和UI是驱动机制是一致的。我们没有探测到来自ES Cet、RX J1914+24或Gliese 876的射电辐射。

英文摘要:

Unipolar induction (UI) is a fundamental physical process, which occurs when a conducting body transverses a magnetic field. It has been suggested that UI is operating in RX J0806+15 and RX J1914+24, which are believed to be ultra-compact binaries with orbital periods of 5.4 min and 9.6 min respectively. The UI model predicts that those two sources may be electron cyclotron maser sources at radio wavelengths. Other systems in which UI has been predicted to occur are short period extra-solar terrestrial planets with conducting cores. If UI is present, circularly polarised radio emission is predicted to be emitted. We have searched for this predicted radio emission from short period binaries using the VLA and ATCA. In one epoch we find evidence for a radio source, coincident in position with the optical position of RX J0806+15. Although we cannot completely exclude that this is a chance alignment between the position of RX J0806+15 and an artifact in the data reduction process, the fact that it was detected at a significance level of 5.8 sigma and found to be transient, suggests that it is more likely that RX J0806+15 is a transient radio source. We find an upper limit on the degree of circular polarisation to be ~50%. The inferred brightness temperature exceeds 10^18 K, which is too high for any known incoherent process, but is consistent with maser emission and UI being the driving mechanism. We did not detect radio emission from ES Cet, RX J1914+24 or Gliese 876.

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