We investigate pulsar timing residuals due to the coupling effect of the pulsar transverse acceleration and the R$\rm{\ddot{o}}$mer delay. The effect is relatively small and usually negligible. Only for pulsars in globular clusters, it is possibly important. The maximum residual amplitude, which is from the pulsar near the surface of the core of the cluster, is about tens nanoseconds, and may hardly be identified for most of the globular clusters currently. However, an intermediate-mass black hole in the centre of a cluster can increase apparently the timing residual magnitudes. Particularly for the pulsars in the innermost core region, their residual magnitudes may be significant. The high-magnitude residuals, which above critical lines of each cluster, are strong evidences for the presence of a black hole or dark remnants of comparable total mass in the centre of the cluster. We also explored the timing effects of line-of-sight accelerations for the pulsars. The distribution of measured line-of-sight accelerations are simulated with a Monte Carlo method. A two-dimensional Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests are performed to reexamine the consistency of distributions of the simulated and reported data for various values of parameters of the clusters. It is shown that the structure parameters of Terzan 5 can be well constrained by comparing the distribution of measured line-of-sight accelerations with the distributions from Monte Carlo simulations. We provide that the cluster has an upper limit on the central black hole/dark remnant mass of $ \sim 6000 M_{\odot} $.
Three Pulsars Discovered by FAST in the Globular Cluster NGC 6517 with a Pulsar Candidate Sifting Code Based on Dispersion Measure to Signal-to-Noise Ratio Plots
本文报道了利用500米口径球面射电望远镜(FAST)在球状星团(GC)NGC6517中发现的三颗新双星,即NGC6517 E、F和G。NGC6517E、F和G的自旋周期分别为7.60、24.89和51.59 ms。它们的色散测量值分别为183.29、183.713和185.3 pc cm $^{-3}$,都比该星团中已知的双星略大。自旋周期导数为1 $\times$ × 10 $^{-18}$~s~s $^{-1}$,表明这些是再循环的质子。除了发现这三颗新的双星外,我们还更新了已知孤立双星NGC 6517 A、C和D的时间解。这些解与Lynch等人(2011)的解一致,并且具有较小的时间残差。从时间解来看,NGC 6517 A、B(位置来自Lynch et al. 2011)、C、E和F在天空中彼此非常接近,距离NGC 6517的光学核心只有几角秒。根据目前已发表和未发表的发现,NGC6517现在有9个天体,在拥有最多天体的GC中排名第5位$^{th}$。这些发现利用了FAST的高灵敏度和一种用于检查和过滤可能的候选信号的新算法。
Probing an Intermediate-Mass Black Hole Companion of Sagittarius A* with Pulsar Timing
Peking University(北京大学);Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Peking University(北京大学科维理天文与天体物理研究所);National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院国家天文台)
From One to Two: A Second Binary Millisecond Pulsar in the Globular Cluster M92 (NGC 6341)
College of Physics, Guizhou University(贵州大学物理学院);Guizhou Radio Astronomical Observatory, Guizhou University(贵州大学贵州射电天文观测站);International Centre of Supernovae, Yunnan Key Laboratory(国际超新星中心云南重点实验室);Institute for Frontier in Astronomy and Astrophysics & Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Beijing Normal University(北京师范大学前沿交叉科学研究院与文理学院);School of Physics and Astronomy, Beijing Normal University(北京师范大学物理与天文学院);State Key Laboratory of Radio Astronomy and Technology, Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院上海天文台射电天文与技术国家重点实验室);Guizhou Vocational College of Foodstuff Engineering(贵州食品工程职业学院)
Internal gas models and central black hole in 47 Tucanae using millisecond pulsars
尽管考虑到恒星演化的质量损失,但球状星团中的气体含量似乎很低,因此其测量非常难以捉摸。限制球状星团中电离气体存在的一种方法是通过它对星团中毫秒级恒星辐射的色散效应。这一效应使弗莱雷等人在2001年首次在球状星团中探测到任何种类的气体,即土卡星团47。通过利用额外12年的计时结果,以及对47个Tuccenda中新的毫秒双星的观测,我们重新审视了这一测量:我们首先使用了整套可用的计时参数,以测量星团的动力学特性和双星的三维位置。然后,我们应用并测试了各种气体分布模型:假设气体密度恒定,我们确认检测到数密度为$n= 0.23\pm 0.05$ cm $^{-3}$的电离气体,大于先前的测定值(在2 $σ$不确定度下)。预测密度降低或遵循恒星分布密度的模型非常不受欢迎。我们还能够调查存在的中间质量黑洞在集群的中心,显示这是不需要的现有数据,与上限的质量在$\sim 4000$ M $_{\odot}$。
Intermediate mass black holes in globular clusters: effects on jerks and jounces of millisecond pulsars
球状星团的中心可能有中等质量的黑洞。在这里,我们提出了一种新的方法,他们的识别使用毫秒脉冲(MSP)作为探针。我们表明,测量的第一(挺举)和第二(颠簸)衍生物的合奏的MSP的加速度将让我们推断的IMBH的存在下,在一个球状星团比测量的唯一加速度。我们通过模拟一组有和没有中央IMBH的星团来测试这一概念,以提取恒星颠簸和颠簸的分布。然后,我们将这种技术应用于银河系球状星团47 Tuccino的MSP系综。目前的时间观测不足以限制IMBH的存在,只能用来确定其质量的上限。但是,通过几年的观测,将有可能测试质量小于$\sim$ 1000 M $_{\odot}$的中央IMBH的存在。我们的结论是,颠簸和颠簸有助于显着降低银河系球状星团的IMBHs的质量上限。
Probing Ultralight Axion-like Dark Matter: A Pulsar Timing Arrays-Pulsar Polarization Arrays Synergy
Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院高能物理研究所);School of Physics Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院大学物理科学学院);Department of Physics and Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology(香港科技大学物理系及赛马会高等研究院);Hunan Normal University(湖南师范大学);Australia Telescope National Facility, CSIRO, Space and Astronomy(CSIRO空间与天文部澳大利亚望远镜国家设施);Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)(马克斯·普朗克引力物理研究所(阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦研究所));Leibniz Universit¨at Hannover(汉诺威莱布尼茨大学);School of Physics and Astronomy, Beijing Normal University(北京师范大学物理与天文学院);Department of Physics, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai(北京师范大学珠海校区艺术与理学院物理系);Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study, UCAS(中国科学院大学杭州高等研究院);University of Chinese Academy of Sciences(中国科学院大学);Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chi(理论物理研究所)
Probing Picohertz Gravitational Waves with Pulsars
Yale University(耶鲁大学);University of Maryland(马里兰大学);The Johns Hopkins University(约翰斯·霍普金斯大学);The University of Texas at Austin(德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校);University of Florida(佛罗里达大学)