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球状星团中的射电脉冲双星:轨道偏心率和恒星相互作用

Radio pulsar binaries in globular clusters: their orbital eccentricities and stellar interactions

Manjari Bagchi, Alak Ray

摘要:

通过改进的脉冲星搜索算法和持续的脉冲星定时观测,对球状星团(GC)进行了高灵敏度搜索,迄今已在20多个GC中发现了约140颗射电双星。观测到的射电双星的轨道偏心率和周期分布,在GC中留下了单射电双星与双星系统或双星与单颗非致密星相互作用的痕迹。可以看出,GC具有不同的多个组。这可能是由于双星的一个组成部分与进入的恒星交换或合并,或者是“飞越”,其中原始的双星保持完整,但经历了离心率和轨道周期的变化。我们认为起源的分布的pixels使用分析和计算工具,如STARLAB,它进行数值散射实验与直接N体积分。具有中等偏心率的星团脉冲星大多数可以用飞掠来解释,而具有高偏心率的星团脉冲星则可能是单星与脉冲星的双星伴星交换和/或合并的结果,尽管有一些天体不容易符合这种描述。银河场脉冲星的轨道周期和偏心率分布与GC脉冲星的轨道周期和偏心率分布有明显的不同。长轨道周期的星系场与冻结的低偏心率的恒星在很大程度上是失踪的球状星团,我们表明,电离这些系统在GC不能单独占的特点。

英文摘要:

High sensitivity searches of globular clusters (GC) for radio pulsars by improved pulsar search algorithms and sustained pulsar timing observations have so far yielded some 140 pulsars in more than two dozen GCs. The observed distribution of orbital eccentricity and period of binary radio pulsars in GCs have imprints of the past interaction between single pulsars and binary systems or of binary pulsars and single passing non-compact stars. It is seen that GCs have different groups of pulsars. These may have arisen out of exchange or merger of a component of the binary with the incoming star or a "fly-by" in which the original binary remains intact but undergoes a change of eccentricity and orbital period. We consider the genesis of the distribution of pulsars using analytical and computational tools such as STARLAB, which performs numerical scattering experiments with direct N-body integration. Cluster pulsars with intermediate eccentricities can mostly be accounted for by fly-bys whereas those with high eccentricities are likely to be the result of exchanges and/or mergers of single stars with the binary companion of the pulsar, although there are a few objects which do not easily fit into this description. The corresponding distribution for galactic field pulsars shows notable differences from the GC pulsar orbital period and eccentricity distribution. The long orbital period pulsars in the galactic field with frozen out low eccentricities are largely missing from the globular clusters, and we show that ionization of these systems in GCs cannot alone account for the peculiarities.

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