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用AGILE Gamma-Ray望远镜对自旋动力脉冲星的高分辨率定时观测

High-Resolution Timing Observations of Spin-Powered Pulsars with the AGILE Gamma-Ray Telescope

A. Pellizzoni, M. Pilia, A. Possenti, F. Fornari, P. Caraveo, E. Del Monte, S. Mereghetti, M. Tavani, A. Argan, A. Trois, M. Burgay, A. Chen, I. Cognard, E. Cos… 展开作者

A. Pellizzoni, M. Pilia, A. Possenti, F. Fornari, P. Caraveo, E. Del Monte, S. Mereghetti, M. Tavani, A. Argan, A. Trois, M. Burgay, A. Chen, I. Cognard, E. Costa, N. D'Amico, P. Esposito, Y. Evangelista, M. Feroci, F. Fuschino, A. Giuliani, J. Halpern, G. Hobbs, A. Hotan, S. Johnston, M. Kramer, F. Longo, R. N. Manchester, M. Marisaldi, J. Palfreyman, P. Weltevrede, G. Barbiellini, F. Boffelli, A. Bulgarelli, P. W. Cattaneo, V. Cocco, F. D'Ammando, G. De Paris, G. Di Cocco, I. Donnarumma, M. Fiorini, T. Froysland, M. Galli, F. Gianotti, A. Harding, C. Labanti, I. Lapshov, F. Lazzarotto, P. Lipari, F. Mauri, A. Morselli, L. Pacciani, F. Perotti, P. Picozza, M. Prest, G. Pucella, M. Rapisarda, A. Rappoldi, P. Soffitta, M. Trifoglio, E. Vallazza, S. Vercellone, V. Vittorini, A. Zambra, D. Zanello, C. Pittori, F. Verrecchia, B. Preger, P. Santolamazza, P. Giommi, L. Salotti

摘要:

AGILE是意大利航天局于2007年4月发射的一颗小型伽马射线天文学卫星,专门用于高能天体物理学。它的1微秒绝对时间标记能力加上在30 MeV-30 GeV范围内的良好灵敏度,同时在18-60 keV波段进行X射线监测,使其非常适合研究CGRO/EGRET遗产的伽马射线源。在本文中,我们提出了第一个AGILE计时结果的已知伽马射线天体船帆座,蟹,Geminga和B 1706-44。这些数据收集于2007年7月至2008年4月,利用任务科学验证阶段,仪器定时校准和早期观测指向计划。由于其大视场,AGILE在短短几个月的观测中从这些恒星中收集了大量的伽马射线光子(船帆座大约10,000个脉冲计数)。AGILE计时能力、同步无线电/X射线监测和旨在精确光子定相的新工具的结合,还利用了计时噪声校正,在亚毫秒水平上揭示了新的有趣特征。

英文摘要:

AGILE is a small gamma-ray astronomy satellite mission of the Italian Space Agency dedicated to high-energy astrophysics launched in 2007 April. Its 1 microsecond absolute time tagging capability coupled with a good sensitivity in the 30 MeV-30 GeV range, with simultaneous X-ray monitoring in the 18-60 keV band, makes it perfectly suited for the study of gamma-ray pulsars following up on the CGRO/EGRET heritage. In this paper we present the first AGILE timing results on the known gamma-ray pulsars Vela, Crab, Geminga and B 1706-44. The data were collected from 2007 July to 2008 April, exploiting the mission Science Verification Phase, the Instrument Timing Calibration and the early Observing Pointing Program. Thanks to its large field of view, AGILE collected a large number of gamma-ray photons from these pulsars (about 10,000 pulsed counts for Vela) in only few months of observations. The coupling of AGILE timing capabilities, simultaneous radio/X-ray monitoring and new tools aimed at precise photon phasing, exploiting also timing noise correction, unveiled new interesting features at sub-millisecond level in the pulsars' high-energy light-curves.

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