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银河系球状星团中的年轻射电脉冲星

Young Radio Pulsars in Galactic Globular Clusters

Jason Boyles, Duncan R. Lorimer, Phil J. Turk, Robert Mnatsakanov, Ryan S. Lynch, Scott M. Ransom, Paulo C. Freire, Khris Belczynski

摘要:

目前,在97个被调查的银河系球状星团中,已知有三颗孤立的射电脉冲星和一颗双星射电脉冲星,没有任何以前回收的证据。正如Lyne等人所指出的,这些超新星的存在不能用核心坍缩的超新星来解释,就像通常认为的银河系盘中的超新星一样。我们对球状星团中射电天体的观测结果进行了贝叶斯分析,发现所有星团中存在的潜在可观测的非回收射电天体的数量< 3600。考虑到辐射和保留的因素,假设麦克斯韦速度分布的离散度为10 km/s^{-1},所有97个星团的任何形成情景的隐含出生率都小于0.25亿亿年。对于更高速度的弥散,隐含的出生率大大高于银河系圆盘中这类恒星的推断。这表明,球状星团中年轻双星的速度色散明显低于盘状双星。这些数字可能被大大高估了,因为目前已知的年轻恒星样本只在富含金属的星团中观察到。我们认为年轻的类星体可能只形成于金属丰度log[Fe/H] >-0.6的球状星团中。在这种情况下,可能观测到的这种年轻人的数量是447^{+1420}_{-399}(误差线给出了95%的置信区间),他们的出生率是每世纪0.012^{+0.037}_{-0.010}人。最有可能解释这些超新星的创造方案是OMgNe白矮星的电子捕获超新星。

英文摘要:

Currently three isolated radio pulsars and one binary radio pulsar with no evidence of any previous recycling are known in 97 surveyed Galactic globular clusters. As pointed out by Lyne et al., the presence of these pulsars cannot be explained by core-collapse supernovae, as is commonly assumed for their counterparts in the Galactic disk. We apply a Bayesian analysis to the results from surveys for radio pulsars in globular clusters and find the number of potentially observable non-recycled radio pulsars present in all clusters to be < 3600. Accounting for beaming and retention considerations, the implied birth rate for any formation scenario for all 97 clusters is < 0.25 pulsars per century assuming a Maxwellian distribution of velocities with a dispersion of 10 km s^{-1}. The implied birth rates for higher velocity dispersions are substantially higher than inferred for such pulsars in the Galactic disk. This suggests that the velocity dispersion of young pulsars in globular clusters is significantly lower than those of disk pulsars. These numbers may be substantial overestimates due to the fact that the currently known sample of young pulsars is observed only in metal-rich clusters. We propose that young pulsars may only be formed in globular clusters with metallicities with log[Fe/H] > -0.6. In this case, the potentially observable population of such young pulsars is 447^{+1420}_{-399} (the error bars give the 95% confidence interval) and their birth rate is 0.012^{+0.037}_{-0.010} pulsars per century. The mostly likely creation scenario to explain these pulsars is the electron capture supernova of a OMgNe white dwarf.

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