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用LOFAR测量100颗射电脉冲星的宽带低频脉冲轮廓

Wide-Band, Low-Frequency Pulse Profiles of 100 Radio Pulsars with LOFAR

M. Pilia, J. W. T. Hessels, B. W. Stappers, V. I. Kondratiev, M. Kramer, J. van Leeuwen, P. Weltevrede, A. G. Lyne, K. Zagkouris, T. E. Hassall, A. V. Bilous, R… 展开作者

M. Pilia, J. W. T. Hessels, B. W. Stappers, V. I. Kondratiev, M. Kramer, J. van Leeuwen, P. Weltevrede, A. G. Lyne, K. Zagkouris, T. E. Hassall, A. V. Bilous, R. P. Breton, H. Falcke, J. -M. Grießmeier, E. Keane, A. Karastergiou, M. Kuniyoshi, A. Noutsos, S. Osłowski, M. Serylak, C. Sobey, S. ter Veen, A. Alexov, J. Anderson, A. Asgekar, I. M. Avruch, M. E. Bell, M. J. Bentum, G. Bernardi, L. Bîrzan, A. Bonafede, F. Breitling, J. W. Broderick, M. Brüggen, B. Ciardi, S. Corbel, E. de Geus, A. de Jong, A. Deller, S. Duscha, J. Eislöffel, R. A. Fallows, R. Fender, C. Ferrari, W. Frieswijk, M. A. Garrett, A. W. Gunst, J. P. Hamaker, G. Heald, A. Horneffer, P. Jonker, E. Juette, G. Kuper, P. Maat, G. Mann, S. Markoff, R. McFadden, D. McKay-Bukowski, J. C. A. Miller-Jones, A. Nelles, H. Paas, M. Pandey-Pommier, M. Pietka, R. Pizzo, A. G. Polatidis, W. Reich, H. Röttgering, A. Rowlinson, D. Schwarz, O. Smirnov, M. Steinmetz, A. Stewart, J. D. Swinbank, M. Tagger, Y. Tang, C. Tasse, S. Thoudam, M. C. Toribio, A. J. van der Horst, R. Vermeulen, C. Vocks, R. J. van Weeren, R. A. M. J. Wijers, R. Wijnands, S. J. Wijnholds, O. Wucknitz, P. Zarka

摘要:

LOFAR提供了在10-240 MHz频率范围内观测卫星的独特能力,带宽约为50%。该光谱范围非常适合于研究脉冲轮廓形态的频率演变所造成的内在和外在的影响:如改变发射高度的脉冲星磁层或散射展宽的星际介质,分别。大多数这些影响的幅度在低频时迅速增加。因此,LOFAR可以解决一些关于射电脉冲星发射的性质及其通过星际介质传播的悬而未决的问题。本文给出了在两个LOFAR频段上观测到的100颗恒星的平均脉冲轮廓:高频带(120-167 MHz,100个轮廓)和低频带(15-62 MHz,26个轮廓)。我们将它们与Westerbork综合射电望远镜(WSRT)和Lovell望远镜在更高频率(350和1400 MHz)的观测结果进行比较,以研究轮廓的演变。的配置文件是对齐的绝对相位折叠与一组新的定时解决方案,从洛弗尔望远镜,我们提出了与LOFAR获得精确的色散措施。我们发现,随着射频的降低,轮廓的演变并不遵循特定的趋势,但根据脉冲星的几何形状,新的组件可以进入,或隐藏,视图。尽管如此,在一般情况下,我们的观察证实了脉冲星的档案在低频率的扩大,如预期从半径到频率映射或双折射理论。我们通过脉冲星轮廓的EPN数据库(http://www.epta.eu.org/epndb/)以用户友好的方式提供低频脉冲星轮廓的目录。

英文摘要:

LOFAR offers the unique capability of observing pulsars across the 10-240 MHz frequency range with a fractional bandwidth of roughly 50%. This spectral range is well-suited for studying the frequency evolution of pulse profile morphology caused by both intrinsic and extrinsic effects: such as changing emission altitude in the pulsar magnetosphere or scatter broadening by the interstellar medium, respectively. The magnitude of most of these effects increases rapidly towards low frequencies. LOFAR can thus address a number of open questions about the nature of radio pulsar emission and its propagation through the interstellar medium. We present the average pulse profiles of 100 pulsars observed in the two LOFAR frequency bands: High Band (120-167 MHz, 100 profiles) and Low Band (15-62 MHz, 26 profiles). We compare them with Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT) and Lovell Telescope observations at higher frequencies (350 and1400 MHz) in order to study the profile evolution. The profiles are aligned in absolute phase by folding with a new set of timing solutions from the Lovell Telescope, which we present along with precise dispersion measures obtained with LOFAR. We find that the profile evolution with decreasing radio frequency does not follow a specific trend but, depending on the geometry of the pulsar, new components can enter into, or be hidden from, view. Nonetheless, in general our observations confirm the widening of pulsar profiles at low frequencies, as expected from radius-to-frequency mapping or birefringence theories. We offer this catalog of low-frequency pulsar profiles in a user friendly way via the EPN Database of Pulsar Profiles (http://www.epta.eu.org/epndb/).

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