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瞬态反常X射线脉冲星XTE J1810-197的发射和观测几何约束

Constraints on the Emission and Viewing Geometry of the Transient Anomalous X-ray Pulsar XTE J1810-197

Rosalba Perna, Eric V. Gotthelf

摘要:

瞬态异常X射线脉冲星XTE J1810-197在2002年爆发后的通量分量的时间衰减为探测磁星的发射几何提供了一个独特的机会。为了实现这一目标,我们模型的脉冲星的调制幅度随时间的推移在窄谱带。根据以前的工作,我们假设后爆发通量产生在两个不同的热分量所产生的热点和温暖的同心环。我们包括广义相对论效应的黑体光谱由于引力红移和光弯曲附近的恒星表面,这强烈依赖于半径。这会影响模型对发射区域的温度和大小的拟合。对于热点,所观察到的时间和能量依赖的脉冲调制被发现需要一个各向异性的,双光束的辐射图案。我们能够限制视线(psi)和热点极点(xi)相对于自旋轴的角度的允许范围。在误差范围内,这是由位于直线(xi+beta(R))(psi+beta(R))~常数的xi-psi平面中的点的轨迹定义的,其中beta(R)是恒星半径R的函数。对于R=12 km的规范值,观察参数的范围从psi=xi=37 deg到(psi,xi)=(85 deg,15 deg)。我们在磁星发射模型的背景下讨论了我们的结果。

英文摘要:

The temporal decay of the flux components of Transient Anomalous X-ray Pulsar XTE J1810-197 following its 2002 outburst presents a unique opportunity to probe the emission geometry of a magnetar. Toward this goal, we model the magnitude of the pulsar's modulation in narrow spectral bands over time. Following previous work, we assume that the post-outburst flux is produced in two distinct thermal components arising from a hot spot and a warm concentric ring. We include general relativistic effects on the blackbody spectra due to gravitational redshift and light bending near the stellar surface, which strongly depend on radius. This affects the model fits for the temperature and size of the emission regions. For the hot spot, the observed temporal and energy-dependent pulse modulation is found to require an anisotropic, pencil-beamed radiation pattern. We are able to constrain an allowed range for the angles that the line-of-sight (psi) and the hot spot pole (xi) make with respect to the spin-axis. Within errors, this is defined by the locus of points in the xi-psi plane that lie along the line (xi+beta(R))(psi+beta(R)) ~ constant, where beta(R) is a function of the radius R of the star. For a canonical value of R=12 km, the viewing parameters range from psi=xi=37 deg to (psi,xi)=(85 deg,15 deg). We discuss our results in the context of magnetar emission models.

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