VERITAS 对脉冲星尾区的 TeV 伽马射线发射搜寻
高能天体物理现象
2021-08-18 v1
摘要
我们报告了对三颗邻近超音速脉冲星（PSR B0355+54、PSR J0357+3205 和 PSR J1740+1000）周围区域甚高能伽马射线发射的搜寻，这些脉冲星均呈现长 X 射线尾。迄今为止，尚未在任何 X 射线或射电波段显著的脉冲星尾中清晰探测到 TeV 发射。我们给出了 TeV 流强与光度的上限，并将这些上限与其他在 X 射线中探测到的脉冲星风星云以及尾发射模型预言进行了比较。我们发现，在三颗尾中至少有一颗有望在灵敏度提高 2–3 倍的观测中被探测到。本文所呈现的分析对于推导那些尾可能在 TeV 波段被探测到的脉冲星之尾性质亦具有启示意义。
引用
@article{arxiv.2105.13911,
title = {A Search for TeV Gamma-ray Emission from Pulsar Tails by VERITAS},
author = {Wystan Benbow and A. Brill and James Buckley and M Capasso and A Chromey and M. Errando and Abraham Falcone and K. A. Farrell and Qi Feng and J Finley and G. M. Foote and Lucy Fortson and Amy Furniss and Alasdair Gent and C Giuri and David Hanna and Tarek Hassan and Olivier Hervet and Jamie Holder and G Hughes and T. B. Humensky and Weidong Jin and Philip Kaaret and Oleg Kargaltsev and Mary P. Kertzman and David Kieda and Noel Klingler and Sajan Kumar and M Lang and M Lundy and Gernot Maier and C. E. McGrath and Patrick Moriarty and Reshmi Mukherjee and D Nieto and M Nievas-Rosillo and S O'Brien and Rene A. Ong and A. N. Otte and S. Patel and Konstantin Pfrang and Martin Pohl and Raul Prado and John Quinn and Kenneth J. Ragan and P. and T. Reynolds and D Ribeiro and G. T. Richards and Emmet Thomas Roache and James Ryan and Marcos Santander and Glenn H Sembroski and R Shang and Igor Volkov and S. P Wakely and Amanda Weinstein and P. Wilcox and D. A. Williams},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.13911},
year = {2021}
}
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21 pages, 6 figures