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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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.