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PSR B0540-69 及其星云的 X 射线偏振首次探测

高能天体物理现象 2024-02-06 v1

摘要

我们报告了利用约 850 ks 的成像 X 射线偏振探测仪(IXPE)曝光时间,对大麦哲伦云(LMC)中河系外类蟹状 PSR B0540-69 及其脉冲星风云(PWN)进行的 X 射线偏振测量。IXPE 无法分辨该 PWN。对于图像平均数据,未检测到具有统计显著性的偏振,在 2-8 keV 能量范围内给出了 99% 置信度的偏振上限(MDP99)为 5.3%。然而,相位分辨分析在 4-6 keV 能量范围内探测到了星云和脉冲星的偏振。对于定义为脉冲外相位的 PWN,在 4.6σ{\sigma} 显著性水平上探测到偏振度(PD)为 (24.5 ±{\pm} 5.3)%,偏振角(PA)为 (78.1 ±{\pm} 6.2){\deg},这与在光学波段观测到的 PA 一致。在单个脉冲内窗口中,在 3.8σ{\sigma} 显著性水平上测量到偏振迹象,偏振度为 (50.0 ±{\pm} 13.1)%,偏振角为 (6.2 ±{\pm} 7.4){\deg}。一项“同时”PSR/PWN 分析发现脉冲边缘有两个箱的 PD 显著性超过 3σ{\sigma},PD 分别为 (68 ±{\pm} 20)% 和 (62 ±{\pm} 20)%;介于其间的 2-3σ{\sigma} 显著性箱具有较低的 PD,暗示存在额外的偏振结构。

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@article{arxiv.2402.02504,
  title  = {First detection of polarization in X-rays for PSR B0540-69 and its nebula},
  author = {Fei Xie and Josephine Wong and Fabio La Monaca and Roger W. Romani and Jeremy Heyl and Philip Kaaret and Alessandro Di Marco and Niccolò Bucciantini and Kuan Liu and Chi-Yung Ng and Niccolò Di Lalla and Martin C. Weisskopf and Enrico Costa and Paolo Soffitta and Fabio Muleri and Matteo Bachetti and Maura Pilia and John Rankin and Sergio Fabiani and Iván Agudo and Lucio A. Antonelli and Luca Baldini and Wayne H. Baumgartner and Ronaldo Bellazzini and Stefano Bianchi and Stephen D. Bongiorno and Raffaella Bonino and Alessandro Brez and Fiamma Capitanio and Simone Castellano and Elisabetta Cavazzuti and Chien-Ting Chen and Stefano Ciprini and Alessandra De Rosa and Ettore Del Monte and Laura Di Gesu and Immacolata Donnarumma and Victor Doroshenko and Michal Dovčiak and Steven R. Ehlert and Teruaki Enoto and Yuri Evangelista and Riccardo Ferrazzoli and Javier A. Garcia and Shuichi Gunji and Kiyoshi Hayashida and Wataru Iwakiri and Svetlana G. Jorstad and Vladimir Karas and Fabian Kislat and Takao Kitaguchi and Jeffery J. Kolodziejczak and Henric Krawczynski and Luca Latronico and Ioannis Liodakis and Simone Maldera and Alberto Manfreda and Frédéric Marin and Andrea Marinucci and Alan P. Marscher and Herman L. Marshall and Francesco Massaro and Giorgio Matt and Ikuyuki Mitsuishi and Tsunefumi Mizuno and Michela Negro and Stephen L. O'Dell and Nicola Omodei and Chiara Oppedisano and Alessandro Papitto and George G. Pavlov and Abel L. Peirson and Matteo Perri and Melissa Pesce-Rollins and Pierre-Olivier Petrucci and Andrea Possenti and Juri Poutanen and Simonetta Puccetti and Brian D. Ramsey and Ajay Ratheesh and Oliver J. Roberts and Carmelo Sgrò and Patrick Slane and Gloria Spandre and Douglas A. Swartz and Toru Tamagawa and Fabrizio Tavecchio and Roberto Taverna and Yuzuru Tawara and Allyn F. Tennant and Nicholas E. Thomas and Francesco Tombesi and Alessio Trois and Sergey S. Tsygankov and Roberto Turolla and Jacco Vink and Kinwah Wu and Silvia Zane and Zorawar Wadiasingh and Wynn C. G. Ho and Alice K. Harding and Keith C. Gendreau and Zaven Arzoumanian},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.02504},
  year   = {2024}
}

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10 pages, 7 figures, 4 tables, author's version of the paper accepted for publication in ApJ