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H $α$脉冲星弓形激波研究综述

A Survey for H$α$ Pulsar Bow Shocks

Sasha Brownsberger, Roger W. Romani

摘要:

我们报告了对附近$γ$探测到的高能恒星周围的H $α$弓形激波发射的调查。这次调查增加了三个巴尔默主导的中子星弓冲击到以前确认的六个例子。除了{\it Fermi}脉冲星PSR J1741 $-$ 2054周围的激波外,我们现在报告另外两个$γ$射线源PSR J2030 + 4415和PSR J1509 $-$ 5850周围的H $α$结构。这是已知的第一个具有预电离晕的H $α$星云的例子。通过新的测量,我们证明了一个简单的分析模型可以解释弓形激波顶点的角大小和通量。特别是后者,提供了一个新的脉冲星探测器,并在几种情况下显示出比以前假设的大的惯性矩和更小的距离。特别是,我们表明,重新测量PSR J0437 $-$ 4715冲击通量意味着$I = (1.7\pm 0.2) \times 10^{45}/(f_{HI} {\rm sin}i) {\rm g\,cm^2}$。我们还导出了纯$γ$射线脉冲星PSR J2030 + 4415的距离$d\approx 0.72$ kpc,并修正了PSR J1959 + 2048(1.4kpc)和J2555 + 6535($\sim 1$ kpc)的距离,使之小于传统的DM估计值。最后,我们报告的上限为94个额外的LAT仪器。对调查敏感性的估计表明,对于暖中性介质填充因子$ϕ_{WNM}\sim 0.3$,在我们的LAT目标调查中,总共应该有$\sim$ 9个H $α$弓形激波;鉴于现在已知有7个这样的天体,一个大得多的$ϕ_{WNM}$似乎是有问题的。

英文摘要:

We report on a survey for H$α$ bow shock emission around nearby $γ$-detected energetic pulsars. This survey adds three Balmer-dominated neutron star bow shocks to the six previously confirmed examples. In addition to the shock around {\it Fermi} pulsar PSR J1741$-$2054, we now report H$α$ structures around two additional $γ$-ray pulsars, PSR J2030+4415 and PSR J1509$-$5850. These are the first known examples of H$α$ nebulae with pre-ionization halos. With new measurements, we show that a simple analytic model can account for the angular size and flux of the bow shocks' apices. The latter, in particular, provides a new pulsar probe and indicates large moments of inertia and smaller distances than previously assumed, in several cases. In particular we show that the re-measured PSR J0437$-$4715 shock flux implies $I = (1.7\pm 0.2) \times 10^{45}/(f_{HI} {\rm sin}i) {\rm g\,cm^2}$. We also derive a distance $d\approx 0.72$kpc for the $γ$-ray only pulsar PSR J2030+4415 and revised distances for PSRs J1959+2048 (1.4kpc) and J2555+6535 ($\sim 1$kpc), smaller than the conventional DM-estimated values. Finally we report upper limits for 94 additional LAT pulsars. An estimate of the survey sensitivity indicates that for a warm neutral medium filling factor $ϕ_{WNM}\sim 0.3$ there should be a total of $\sim$ nine H$α$ bow shocks in our LAT-targeted survey; given that seven such objects are now known, a much larger $ϕ_{WNM}$ seems problematic.

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