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用Kepler对过渡毫秒脉冲星PSR J1023 +0038的首次连续光学监测

The first continuous optical monitoring of the transitional millisecond pulsar PSR J1023+0038 with Kepler

A. Papitto, N. Rea, F. Coti Zelati, D. de Martino, S. Scaringi, S. Campana, E. de Oña Wilhelmi, C. Knigge, A. Serenelli, L. Stella, D. F. Torres, P. D'Avanzo, G. L. Israel

摘要:

我们报告了在2017年年中使用K2配置的开普勒对过渡毫秒脉冲星PSR J1023+0038进行的第一次连续80天的光学监测,当时双星中存在X射线亚发光吸积盘。耀斑持续时间从几分钟到14小时,观测到的时间为15.6%,这是一个更大的分数比以前报告的基础上的X射线和过去的光学观测,更频繁的时候,伴星是在上合轨道。在双星轨道周期也存在正弦调制,振幅约为16%,在几天的时间尺度上变化了几个百分点,最大值发生在供体的上结合之前890 +/- 85 s。我们解释这些现象的X射线发射的不对称加热伴星表面和/或非轴对称外流可能发射接近内拉格朗日点的再处理。此外,在没有相应的大变化的照射X射线通量的情况下,非耀斑平均发射变化高达40%以上的时间尺度的天。后者表明观测到的平均光学光度的变化可能是由于吸积盘外部区域的几何形状、大小和/或质量吸积率的变化。

英文摘要:

We report on the first continuous, 80 day optical monitoring of the transitional millisecond pulsar PSR J1023+0038 carried out in mid-2017 with Kepler in the K2 configuration, when an X-ray subluminous accretion disk was present in the binary. Flares lasting from minutes to 14 hr were observed for 15.6% of the time, which is a larger fraction than previously reported on the basis of X-ray and past optical observations, and more frequently when the companion was at the superior conjunction of the orbit. A sinusoidal modulation at the binary orbital period was also present with an amplitude of ~16%, which varied by a few percent over timescales of days, and with a maximum that took place 890 +/- 85 s earlier than the superior conjunction of the donor. We interpret these phenomena in terms of reprocessing of the X-ray emission by an asymmetrically heated companion star surface and/or a non-axisymmetric outflow possibly launched close to the inner Lagrangian point. Furthermore, the non-flaring average emission varied by up to ~ 40% over a time scale of days in the absence of correspondingly large variations of the irradiating X-ray flux. The latter suggests that the observed changes in the average optical luminosity might be due to variations of the geometry, size, and/or mass accretion rate in the outer regions of the accretion disk.

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