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GeV 100以上脉冲星的首次探测

First Detection of a Pulsar above 100 GeV

A. Nepomuk Otte

摘要:

我们提出的脉冲伽马射线发射的探测蟹状星云脉冲星以上100 GeV的VERITAS阵列大气切伦科夫望远镜。在目前的脉冲星模型中,这些能量的伽马射线辐射是不可能的。我们发现,100 MeV和400 GeV之间的脉冲发射的光子谱可以描述由一个破碎的幂律,它是统计上优选的幂律与指数截止。在VERITAS的能量范围内,光谱可以用一个简单的幂律来描述,光谱指数为-3.8,通量归一化为150 GeV,相当于蟹状星云伽马射线通量的1%。探测到100 GeV以上的脉冲发射和没有指数截止排除了曲率辐射作为主要的伽马射线产生机制。脉冲轮廓显示出蟹状星云脉冲星在相位0.0和0.4时的特征性两个脉冲,尽管比10 GeV以下窄2-3倍。变窄可以解释为磁层中的锥形粒子加速区域。我们的研究结果要求观测到的伽马射线的发射区域距离中子星超过10个恒星半径。

英文摘要:

We present the detection of pulsed gamma-ray emission from the Crab Pulsar above 100 GeV with the VERITAS array of atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes. Gamma-ray emission at theses energies is not expected in present pulsar models. We find that the photon spectrum of pulsed emission between 100 MeV and 400 GeV can be described by a broken power law, and that it is statistically preferred over a power law with an exponential cut-off. In the VERITAS energy range the spectrum can be described with a simple power law with a spectral index of -3.8 and a flux normalization at 150 GeV that is equivalent to 1 % of the Crab Nebula gamma-ray flux. The detection of pulsed emission above 100 GeV and the absence of an exponential cutoff rules out curvature radiation as the primary gamma-ray-producing mechanism. The pulse profile exhibits the characteristic two pulses of the Crab Pulsar at phases 0.0 and 0.4, albeit 2-3 times narrower than below 10 GeV. The narrowing can be interpreted as a tapered particle acceleration region in the magnetosphere. Our findings require that the emission region of the observed gamma rays be beyond 10 stellar radii from the neutron star.

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