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实时快速射电暴:偏振探测和多波长跟踪

A real-time fast radio burst: polarization detection and multiwavelength follow-up

E. Petroff, M. Bailes, E. D. Barr, B. R. Barsdell, N. D. R. Bhat, F. Bian, S. Burke-Spolaor, M. Caleb, D. Champion, P. Chandra, G. Da Costa, C. Delvaux, C. Flyn… 展开作者

E. Petroff, M. Bailes, E. D. Barr, B. R. Barsdell, N. D. R. Bhat, F. Bian, S. Burke-Spolaor, M. Caleb, D. Champion, P. Chandra, G. Da Costa, C. Delvaux, C. Flynn, N. Gehrels, J. Greiner, A. Jameson, S. Johnston, M. M. Kasliwal, E. F. Keane, S. Keller, J. Kocz, M. Kramer, G. Leloudas, D. Malesani, J. S. Mulchaey, C. Ng, E. O. Ofek, D. A. Perley, A. Possenti, B. P. Schmidt, Yue Shen, B. Stappers, P. Tisserand, W. van Straten, C. Wolf

摘要:

快速射电暴(FRB)是无线电天空中最令人着迷的谜团之一;它们的祖先和起源仍然未知,直到现在还没有快速多波长FRB的后续行动。新的仪器将观测和发现之间的时间从几年缩短到几秒钟,并首次在FRB上进行偏振测量。我们于2014年5月14日17:14:11.06 UTC在帕克斯射电望远镜上实时发现了一个FRB(FRB 140514),并在事件发生后数小时内触发了其他波长的后续行动。FRB 140514的色散测量值(DM)为562.7(6)cm $^{-3}$ pc,给出了源红移的上限为$z \lesssim 0.5$。发现FRB 140514在前缘为21 $\pm$ 7%(3- $σ$)圆偏振,线性偏振上限为1- $σ$ $<10%$。我们的结论是,这种极化是固有的FRB。如果存在任何固有的线性极化,正如从相干发射中可以预期的那样,那么它可能已经被穿过强磁场和/或高密度环境引起的法拉第旋转去极化。FRB 140514是在一次重新观测已知FRB场的活动中发现的,与之前发现的FRB 110220很接近;基于这些爆发的DM差异和天空时间参数,我们将其接近归因于采样偏差,并得出结论,它们是不同的物体。由12台望远镜进行的后续观测从X射线到无线电波长都无法确定一个可变的多波长对应物,这使我们能够排除FRB起源于附近($z < 0.3$)超新星和长持续时间伽马射线暴的模型。

英文摘要:

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are one of the most tantalizing mysteries of the radio sky; their progenitors and origins remain unknown and until now no rapid multiwavelength follow-up of an FRB has been possible. New instrumentation has decreased the time between observation and discovery from years to seconds, and enables polarimetry to be performed on FRBs for the first time. We have discovered an FRB (FRB 140514) in real-time on 14 May, 2014 at 17:14:11.06 UTC at the Parkes radio telescope and triggered follow-up at other wavelengths within hours of the event. FRB 140514 was found with a dispersion measure (DM) of 562.7(6) cm$^{-3}$ pc, giving an upper limit on source redshift of $z \lesssim 0.5$. FRB 140514 was found to be 21$\pm$7% (3-$σ$) circularly polarized on the leading edge with a 1-$σ$ upper limit on linear polarization $<10%$. We conclude that this polarization is intrinsic to the FRB. If there was any intrinsic linear polarization, as might be expected from coherent emission, then it may have been depolarized by Faraday rotation caused by passing through strong magnetic fields and/or high density environments. FRB 140514 was discovered during a campaign to re-observe known FRB fields, and lies close to a previous discovery, FRB 110220; based on the difference in DMs of these bursts and time-on-sky arguments, we attribute the proximity to sampling bias and conclude that they are distinct objects. Follow-up conducted by 12 telescopes observing from X-ray to radio wavelengths was unable to identify a variable multiwavelength counterpart, allowing us to rule out models in which FRBs originate from nearby ($z < 0.3$) supernovae and long duration gamma-ray bursts.

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