ARECIBO PALFA SURVEY AND EINSTEIN@HOME: BINARY PULSAR DISCOVERY BY VOLUNTEER COMPUTING

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作者
Knispel, B. [1 ,2 ]
Lazarus, P. [3 ]
Allen, B. [1 ,2 ,4 ]
Anderson, D. [5 ]
Aulbert, C. [1 ,2 ]
Bhat, N. D. R. [6 ]
Bock, O. [1 ,2 ]
Bogdanov, S. [3 ]
Brazier, A. [7 ,8 ]
Camilo, F. [9 ]
Chatterjee, S. [7 ]
Cordes, J. M. [7 ]
Crawford, F. [10 ]
Deneva, J. S. [11 ]
Desvignes, G. [12 ,13 ]
Fehrmann, H. [1 ,2 ]
Freire, P. C. C. [14 ]
Hammer, D. [4 ]
Hessels, J. W. T. [15 ,16 ]
Jenet, F. A. [17 ]
Kaspi, V. M. [3 ]
Kramer, M. [14 ,18 ]
van Leeuwen, J. [15 ,16 ]
Lorimer, D. R. [19 ,25 ]
Lyne, A. G. [18 ]
Machenschalk, B. [1 ,2 ]
McLaughlin, M. A. [19 ,25 ]
Messenger, C. [1 ,2 ,20 ]
Nice, D. J. [21 ]
Papa, M. A. [4 ,22 ]
Pletsch, H. J. [1 ,2 ]
Prix, R. [1 ,2 ]
Ransom, S. M. [23 ]
Siemens, X. [4 ]
Stairs, I. H. [24 ]
Stappers, B. W. [18 ]
Stovall, K. [17 ]
Venkataraman, A. [11 ]
机构
[1] Max Planck Inst Gravitat Phys, Albert Einstein Inst, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
[2] Leibniz Univ Hannover, Inst Gravitat Phys, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
[3] McGill Univ, Dept Phys, Montreal, PQ H3A 2T8, Canada
[4] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Phys, Milwaukee, WI 53211 USA
[5] Univ Calif Berkeley, Space Sci Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[6] Swinburne Univ Technol, Ctr Astrophys & Supercomp, Hawthorn, Vic 3122, Australia
[7] Cornell Univ, Dept Astron, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
[8] Cornell Univ, NAIC, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
[9] Columbia Univ, Columbia Astrophys Lab, New York, NY 10027 USA
[10] Franklin & Marshall Coll, Dept Phys & Astron, Lancaster, PA 17604 USA
[11] Arecibo Observ, Arecibo, PR 00612 USA
[12] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Astron, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[13] Univ Calif Berkeley, Radio Astron Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[14] Max Planck Inst Radioastron, D-53121 Bonn, Germany
[15] Netherlands Inst Radio Astron ASTRON, NL-7990 AA Dwingeloo, Netherlands
[16] Univ Amsterdam, Astron Inst Anton Pannekoek, NL-1098 SJ Amsterdam, Netherlands
[17] Univ Texas Brownsville, Ctr Gravitat Wave Astron, Brownsville, TX 78520 USA
[18] Univ Manchester, Sch Phys & Astron, Jodrell Bank Ctr Astrophys, Manchester M13 9PL, Lancs, England
[19] W Virginia Univ, Dept Phys, Morgantown, WV 26506 USA
[20] Cardiff Univ, Cardiff Sch Phys & Astron, Cardiff CF24 3AA, S Glam, Wales
[21] Lafayette Coll, Dept Phys, Easton, PA 18042 USA
[22] Max Planck Inst Gravitat Phys, Albert Einstein Inst, D-14476 Golm, Germany
[23] Natl Radio Astron Observ, Charlottesville, VA 22903 USA
[24] Univ British Columbia, Dept Phys & Astron, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada
[25] Natl Radio Astron Observ, Green Bank, WV 24944 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会; 加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会;
关键词
pulsars: general; pulsars: individual (J1952+2630); stars: neutron; white dwarfs; GENERAL-RELATIVITY; SHAPIRO DELAY; SYSTEMS; TESTS;
D O I
10.1088/2041-8205/732/1/L1
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We report the discovery of the 20.7 ms binary pulsar J1952+2630, made using the distributed computing project Einstein@Home in Pulsar ALFA survey observations with the Arecibo telescope. Follow-up observations with the Arecibo telescope confirm the binary nature of the system. We obtain a circular orbital solution with an orbital period of 9.4 hr, a projected orbital radius of 2.8 lt-s, and a mass function of f = 0.15M(circle dot) by analysis of spin period measurements. No evidence of orbital eccentricity is apparent; we set a 2 sigma upper limit e less than or similar to 1.7 x 10(-3). The orbital parameters suggest a massive white dwarf companion with a minimum mass of 0.95 M-circle dot, assuming a pulsar mass of 1.4 M-circle dot. Most likely, this pulsar belongs to the rare class of intermediate-mass binary pulsars. Future timing observations will aim to determine the parameters of this system further, measure relativistic effects, and elucidate the nature of the companion star.
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