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毫秒脉冲星最年轻的白矮星伴星:来自 NGC 362D 的见解

The youngest white dwarf companion to a millisecond pulsar: Insights from NGC 362D

  • University of Bologna(博洛尼亚大学)
  • INAF – Osservatorio di Astrofisica e Scienza dello Spazio(意大利国家天体物理研究所-天文与空间科学观测台)
  • Universität Bielefeld(比勒费尔德大学)
  • Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie(马克斯·普朗克射电天文研究所)
  • INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma(意大利国家天体物理研究所-罗马天文台)

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Greta Ettorre, Emanuele Dalessandro, Mario Cadelano, Alessandro Ridolfi, Cristina Pallanca, Paulo C. C. Freire, Vivek Venkatraman Krishnan, Maurizio Salaris, Fr… 展开作者

Greta Ettorre, Emanuele Dalessandro, Mario Cadelano, Alessandro Ridolfi, Cristina Pallanca, Paulo C. C. Freire, Vivek Venkatraman Krishnan, Maurizio Salaris, Franca D'Antona, Rouhin Nag

AI总结:

本研究通过哈勃观测识别出球状星团 NGC362 中毫秒脉冲星 NGC362D 的最年轻白矮星伴星,发现其残余星周物质导致的光度变化,为研究脉冲星再循环及伴星早期演化提供关键案例。

AI中文摘要:

我们报告了基于深度、多波段、多历元的哈勃太空望远镜观测,在银河系球状星团 NGC 362 中识别出最近发现的毫秒脉冲星(MSP)NGC362D 的光学对应体。我们的分析有力地表明,该天体是一颗仍处于冷却前阶段的极低质量(约 0.18 太阳质量)氦白矮星(WD)。有趣的是,与更新的双星演化模型的详细比较表明,该天体仅在最近(约 6 亿年前)才完成质量转移阶段,从而强烈暗示 COM-NGC362D 是迄今已识别出的最年轻的 MSP 白矮星伴星。值得注意的是,在这方面,NGC362D 的光度特性首次在此类天体类别中显示出显著的随波长变化,这与残余星周物质的存在相一致。因此,该系统为直接探测 MSP 再循环过程后的即刻状态,以及约束原白矮星伴星的早期演化阶段及其射电和光学特性,提供了一个宝贵的测试案例。我们的结果表明,残余物质可以产生与具有非简并伴星的系统相似的射电和光学信号,可能导致年轻 MSP 的错误分类。

英文摘要:

We report on the identification of the optical counterpart to the recently discovered millisecond pulsar (MSP) NGC362D in the Galactic globular cluster NGC362 based on deep, multi-band, and multi-epoch Hubble Space Telescope observations. Our analysis robustly shows that this object is a very low-mass ($\sim0.18 M_{\odot}$) He white dwarf (WD) still in the pre-cooling phase. Interestingly, a detailed comparison with updated binary evolution models indicates that this object completed the mass-transfer phase only recently ($\sim0.6$ Gyr ago), thus strongly suggesting that COM-NGC362D is the youngest WD companion to a MSP identified to date. Remarkably, in this respect, the photometric properties of NGC362D show, for the first time in this class of objects, significant wavelength-dependent variations that are consistent with the presence of residual circumstellar material. This system therefore provides a valuable test case to directly probe the immediate aftermath of the MSP recycling process and to constrain the early evolutionary stages of proto-WD companions and their radio and optical properties. Our results suggest that residual material can produce radio and optical signatures that mimic those of systems with non-degenerate companions, potentially leading to the misclassification of young MSPs.

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