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来自gamma-ray卫星的宽无线电波束

Wide radio beams from gamma-ray pulsars

V. Ravi, R. N. Manchester, G. Hobbs

摘要:

我们从已知的星群中选取两个样本,研究正常星群和毫秒星群的射电和γ射线辐射特性。第一个是样本G,它包含了可以在费米大面积望远镜的伽马射线数据的盲搜索中检测到的伽马射线。第二个样本R包含在盲无线电搜索中可检测到的恒星,其自旋下光度Edot > 10^{34} erg/s。我们分析了具有可检测的无线电脉冲的伽马射线选择的样品G的部分和具有可检测的伽马射线脉冲的无线电选择的样品R的部分。我们的35个样本G卫星中有20个已经观测到了无线电脉冲。这就排除了低空极冠波束模型,如果像目前认为的那样,伽马射线束产生于外磁层并且非常宽的话。我们进一步发现,对于最高Edot辐射,无线电和伽马射线束具有可比的聚束因子,即,当恒星旋转时,光束覆盖的天空区域相似。对于低Edot伽马射线辐射的恒星来说,无线电波束大约有伽马射线天空覆盖范围的一半。这些结果表明,对于高Edot年轻和毫秒的脉冲星,无线电发射起源于宽光束从地区高的脉冲星磁层,可能接近零电荷表面和伽马射线发射区。此外,它表明,对于这些高Edot恒星,如在伽马射线的情况下,在无线电配置文件中的功能表示焦散线的发射光束图案。

英文摘要:

We investigate the radio and gamma-ray beaming properties of normal and millisecond pulsars by selecting two samples from the known populations. The first, Sample G, contains pulsars which are detectable in blind searches of gamma-ray data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope. The second, Sample R, contains pulsars detectable in blind radio searches which have spin-down luminosities Edot > 10^{34} erg/s. We analyse the fraction of the gamma-ray-selected Sample G which have detectable radio pulses and the fraction of the radio-selected Sample R which have detectable gamma-ray pulses. Twenty of our 35 Sample G pulsars have already observed radio pulses. This rules out low-altitude polar-cap beaming models if, as is currently believed, gamma-ray beams are generated in the outer magnetosphere and are very wide. We further find that, for the highest-Edot pulsars, the radio and gamma-ray beams have comparable beaming factors, i.e., the beams cover similar regions of the sky as the star rotates. For lower-Edot gamma-ray emitting pulsars, the radio beams have about half of the gamma-ray sky coverage. These results suggest that, for high-Edot young and millisecond pulsars, the radio emission originates in wide beams from regions high in the pulsar magnetosphere, probably close to the null-charge surface and to the gamma-ray emitting regions. Furthermore, it suggests that for these high-Edot pulsars, as in the gamma-ray case, features in the radio profile represent caustics in the emission beam pattern.

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