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NGC1977中的紧凑型陡谱无线电源

A compact steep spectrum radio source in NGC1977

D. Anish Roshi, Scott M. Ransom

摘要:

一个紧凑的陡谱射电源(J 0535 -0452)位于天空中,与HII区NGC 1977的明亮光学边缘重合。在8.44 GHz下观察到J 0535 -0452的角尺寸为$\leq 100$质量。射电源的频谱是陡峭和直的,在330和8440 MHz之间的频谱指数为-1.3。未检测到源的2 μm IR计数器部件。这些特征表明,该源可能是一个罕见的高红移射电星系或毫秒脉冲星(MSP)。我们研究了陡谱源是否是毫秒脉冲星,认为光学边缘是HII区与邻近分子云的界面。如果致密源是毫秒脉冲星,那么由于HII区域--分子云界面的极端散射,它在之前的脉冲星勘测中将无法被检测到。在角展宽上获得的极限以及到散射屏的距离用于估计脉冲展宽。在频率$\gtsim$ 5 GHz下,脉冲展宽小于几毫秒。因此,我们用绿岸望远镜(GBT)在14.8和4.8 GHz处搜索J 0535 -0452的脉冲发射。在4.8和14.8GHz处没有检测到55和30 μJy量级的脉冲发射。基于脉冲星搜索算法探索的参数空间,我们得出结论:如果J 0535 -0452是一颗脉冲星,那么它只能是一颗轨道周期为$\ltsim$ 5 hrs的双星MSP。

英文摘要:

A compact steep spectrum radio source (J0535-0452) is located in the sky coincident with a bright optical rim in the HII region NGC1977. J0535-0452 is observed to be $\leq 100$ mas in angular size at 8.44 GHz. The spectrum for the radio source is steep and straight with a spectral index of -1.3 between 330 and 8440 MHz. No 2 μm IR counter part for the source is detected. These characteristics indicate that the source may be either a rare high redshift radio galaxy or a millisecond pulsar (MSP). Here we investigate whether the steep spectrum source is a millisecond pulsar.The optical rim is believed to be the interface between the HII region and the adjacent molecular cloud. If the compact source is a millisecond pulsar, it would have eluded detection in previous pulsar surveys because of the extreme scattering due to the HII region--molecular cloud interface. The limits obtained on the angular broadening along with the distance to the scattering screen are used to estimate the pulse broadening. The pulse broadening is shown to be less than a few msec at frequencies $\gtsim$ 5 GHz. We therefore searched for pulsed emission from J0535-0452 at 14.8 and 4.8 GHz with the Green Bank Telescope (GBT). No pulsed emission is detected to 55 and 30 μJy level at 4.8 and 14.8 GHz. Based on the parameter space explored by our pulsar search algorithm, we conclude that, if J0535-0452 is a pulsar, then it could only be a binary MSP of orbital period $\ltsim$ 5 hrs.

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