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发现一颗与发光Gamma-ray源HESS J1640-465有关的年轻高能脉冲星

NuSTAR Discovery of a Young, Energetic Pulsar Associated with the Luminous Gamma-ray Source HESS J1640-465

E. V. Gotthelf, J. A. Tomsick, J. P. Halpern, J. D. Gelfand, F. A. Harrison, S. E. Boggs, F. E. Christensen, W. W. Craig, J. C. Hailey, V. M. Kaspi, D. K. Stern, W. W. Zhang

摘要:

我们报告的发现206毫秒脉冲星与TeV的伽马射线源HESS J1640-465使用核光谱望远镜阵列(NuSTAR)的X射线天文台。PSR J1640-4631位于壳型超新星遗迹(SNR)G338.3-0.0内,与先前在XMM-牛顿和钱德拉图像中发现的X射线点源和假定的脉冲星风星云(PWN)重合。它正在快速地向下旋转,周期导数Pdot = 9.758(44)E-13,得到向下旋转的光度Edot = 4.4E36 erg s-1,特征年龄= P/2 Pdot = 3350 yr,表面偶极磁场强度Bs = 1.4E13 G。在距G338.3-0.0 12 kpc的距离上,HESS J1640-465的0.2 - 10 TeV光度是该脉冲星目前Edot的6%。费米源1FHL J1640.5-4634与PSR J1640-4631略微重合,但我们在使用费米大面积望远镜(LAT)数据的5年搜索中没有发现伽马射线脉动。脉冲星能量学支持HESS J1640-465宽带谱的演化PWN模型,假设脉冲星的制动指数约为2,其初始自旋周期为Po ~ 15 ms。

英文摘要:

We report the discovery of a 206 ms pulsar associated with the TeV gamma-ray source HESS J1640-465 using the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) X-ray observatory. PSR J1640-4631 lies within the shell-type supernova remnant (SNR) G338.3-0.0, and coincides with an X-ray point source and putative pulsar wind nebula (PWN) previously identified in XMM-Newton and Chandra images. It is spinning down rapidly with period derivative Pdot = 9.758(44)E-13, yielding a spin-down luminosity Edot = 4.4E36 erg s-1, characteristic age = P/2Pdot = 3350 yr, and surface dipole magnetic field strength Bs = 1.4E13 G. For the measured distance of 12 kpc to G338.3-0.0, the 0.2 - 10 TeV luminosity of HESS J1640-465 is 6% of the pulsar's present Edot. The Fermi source 1FHL J1640.5-4634 is marginally coincident with PSR J1640-4631, but we find no gamma-ray pulsations in a search using 5 years of Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) data. The pulsar energetics support an evolutionary PWN model for the broad-band spectrum of HESS J1640-465, provided that the pulsar's braking index is approximately 2, and that its initial spin period was Po ~ 15 ms.

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