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用加那利大望远镜对三颗年轻的gamma-ray恒星的观测

Observations of three young gamma-ray pulsars with the Gran Telescopio Canarias

R. P. Mignani, N. Rea, V. Testa, M. Marelli, A. De Luca, M. Pierbattista, A. Shearer, D. F. Torres, E. De Ona Wilhelmi

摘要:

本文报道了对\em费米伽玛射线空间望远镜探测到的三个孤立的$γ$射线天体的首次深光学观测结果的分析:射电强的PSR 1,J 0248 +6021和PSR 1,J 0631 +1036,以及射电静的PSR 1,J 0633 +0632。后者也在X射线中被检测到。这两颗双星在它们的自旋下降年龄($τ\sim$ 40- 60 kyrs)、自旋下降能量($\dot{E} \sim10^{35}$ erg s $^{-1}$)和偶极表面磁场($B \sim 3$ - $5\times10^{12}$ G)方面非常相似。这些类星体是多波长观测的有希望的目标,因为它们已经在$γ$射线和无线电或X射线中被探测到。在光学波段还没有检测到它们。我们在2014年用西班牙10.4米大加那利望远镜(GTC)观测了这三个脉冲星场。对于PSR 1、J 0248 +6021、J 0631 +1036和J 0633 +0632,我们无法找到接近其最近无线电或{ \em Chandra}位置的任何候选光学对应物,其$3 σ$极限分别为$g'\sim27.3$、$g'\sim27$、$g'\sim27.3$。从推断的光学上限和估计的距离和星际消光,我们推导出脉冲星光学光度的限制。我们还用\chan \搜寻了PSR\J 0248 +6021的X射线对应物,但我们没有探测到低至$5 \times 10^{-14}$ erg cm $^{-2}$ s $^{-1}$(0.3- 10 keV)的3 $σ$通量极限的脉冲星。对于所有这些恒星,我们比较了光通量上限与外推的$γ$ -射线光谱的光域,并比较其多波长特性与其他$γ$ -射线恒星的年龄相当。

英文摘要:

We report the analysis of the first deep optical observations of three isolated $γ$-ray pulsars detected by the {\em Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope}: the radio-loud PSR\, J0248+6021 and PSR\, J0631+1036, and the radio-quiet PSR\, J0633+0632. The latter has also been detected in the X rays. The pulsars are very similar in their spin-down age ($τ\sim$40--60 kyrs), spin-down energy ($\dot{E} \sim10^{35}$ erg s$^{-1}$), and dipolar surface magnetic field ($B \sim 3$--$5\times10^{12}$ G). These pulsars are promising targets for multi-wavelength observations, since they have been already detected in $γ$ rays and in radio or X-rays. None of them has been detected yet in the optical band. We observed the three pulsar fields in 2014 with the Spanish 10.4m Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC). We could not find any candidate optical counterpart to the three pulsars close to their most recent radio or {\em Chandra} positions down to $3 σ$ limits of $g'\sim27.3$, $g'\sim27$, $g'\sim27.3$ for PSR\, J0248+6021, J0631+1036, and J0633+0632, respectively. From the inferred optical upper limits and estimated distance and interstellar extinction, we derived limits on the pulsar optical luminosity. We also searched for the X-ray counterpart to PSR\, J0248+6021 with \chan\ but we did not detect the pulsar down to a 3$σ$ flux limit of $5 \times 10^{-14}$ erg cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$ (0.3--10 keV). For all these pulsars, we compared the optical flux upper limits with the extrapolations in the optical domain of the $γ$-ray spectra and compared their multi-wavelength properties with those of other $γ$-ray pulsars of comparable age.

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