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gamma-ray变异性和PSR J1420-6048故障的研究

Investigation of gamma-ray variability and glitches of PSR J1420-6048

Lupin C. -C. Lin, H. H. Wang, C. Y. Hui, Jumpei Takata, Paul K. H. Yeung, Chin-Ping Hu, Albert K. H. Kong

摘要:

PSR J1420-6048是一颗年轻的伽马射线脉冲星,具有周期性的毛刺。利用费米伽马射线太空望远镜获得的长期监测数据,我们发现PSR J1420-6048显示了伽马射线通量的变化,我们还在2008年至2019年期间检测到了四次故障。其中两个故障是以前未知的,它们的伽马射线光谱也显示了每个故障之间的变化。由于结果可能被污染的背景源,我们讨论了所观察到的流量和光谱的变化是由人为的错误分配的光子从附近的脉冲星风星云(HESS J1420-607)和脉冲星(PSR J1418-6058),或从目标脉冲星本身的发射几何形状的变化。我们研究的相关性的磁通量的变化和交替脉冲结构,以调查是否在外磁层的发射几何形状发生变化。在假设这些观测特征不完全由背景环境引起的前提下,我们将我们的结果与其他γ射线源观测到的类似现象进行了比较,并提出强烈的地壳破裂可以引起中子星的时间异常,它可以影响粒子的加速或对产生区域,从而导致发射行为的改变。

英文摘要:

PSR J1420-6048 is a young gamma-ray pulsar with recurrent glitches. Utilizing long-term monitoring data obtained from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, we found that PSR J1420-6048 has shown gamma-ray flux variation and we also detected four glitches between 2008 and 2019. Two of the glitches are previously unknown, and their gamma-ray spectrum also shows variability between each glitch. Since the results might be contaminated by background sources, we discuss whether the observed changes in flux and spectra were caused by artificial misallocations of photons from a nearby pulsar wind nebula (HESS J1420-607) and a pulsar (PSR J1418-6058), or a change of the emission geometry from the target pulsar itself. We examine the correlation of the flux changes and the alternating pulse structure to investigate whether the emission geometry in the outer magnetosphere was changing. By assuming the observational features were not totally resulted from the background environment, we compare our results with similar phenomena observed in other gamma-ray pulsars and propose that a strong crust crack can cause timing anomaly of a neutron star, which can affect the particle accelerations or pair creation regions resulting in the changes of emission behaviors.

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