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银河系中子星星族I --Milky Way的河外观点和快速射电暴的意义

The Galactic neutron star population I - an extragalactic view of the Milky Way and the implications for fast radio bursts

A. A. Chrimes, A. J. Levan, P. J. Groot, J. D. Lyman, G. Nelemans

摘要:

天文学家研究河外瞬变的一个关键工具是它们在宿主星系上的位置。银心偏移量、封闭通量和光统计分数在不同波长下被广泛用于帮助推断瞬变祖星的性质。受磁星和快速射电暴(FRB)之间的联系的启发,我们使用其大小,结构和颜色的最佳估计创建了银河系的正面图像。我们将银河系磁星,磁星,低质量和高质量的X射线双星放在这张照片上,使用可用的距离信息。银河系的偏心距,封闭的通量和这些系统的光分布的分数相比,河外瞬态样本。我们发现FRB遵循银河系中子星最接近的分布,我们执行的安德森-达林检验中有24个(75%)的p值大于0.05。这表明FRB位于其宿主上的方式与银河系中子星在银河系的光中一致,尽管我们无法确定哪个特定的中子星种群是最佳匹配。在所进行的比较范围内,银河系分布与其他河外瞬变现象一致的频率要低得多,其中Ia型SNe位居第二,只有33%的测试超过0.05。总体而言,我们的研究结果提供了进一步的支持FRB模型调用孤立的年轻中子星,或包含一个中子星的双星。

英文摘要:

A key tool astronomers have to investigate the nature of extragalactic transients is their position on their host galaxies. Galactocentric offsets, enclosed fluxes and the fraction of light statistic are widely used at different wavelengths to help infer the nature of transient progenitors. Motivated by the proposed link between magnetars and fast radio bursts (FRBs), we create a face-on image of the Milky Way using best estimates of its size, structure and colour. We place Galactic magnetars, pulsars, low mass and high mass X-ray binaries on this image, using the available distance information. Galactocentric offsets, enclosed fluxes and fraction of light distributions for these systems are compared to extragalactic transient samples. We find that FRBs follow the distributions for Galactic neutron stars closest, with 24 (75 per cent) of the Anderson-Darling tests we perform having a p-value greater than 0.05. This suggests that FRBs are located on their hosts in a manner consistent with Galactic neutron stars on the Milky Way's light, although we cannot determine which specific neutron star population is the best match. The Galactic distributions are consistent with other extragalactic transients much less often across the range of comparisons made, with type Ia SNe in second place, at only 33 per cent of tests exceeding 0.05. Overall, our results provide further support for FRB models invoking isolated young neutron stars, or binaries containing a neutron star.

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