近隣の渦巻き銀河に定着した繰り返す高速ラジオバーストの源
B Marcote1, K Nimmo2,3, J W T Hessels4,5
1Joint Institute for VLBI ERIC (JIVE), Dwingeloo, The Netherlands.
Nature
|January 8, 2020
まとめ
二度目の反復の ラジオバースト (FRB) は 巨大な渦巻き銀河に 精密に位置付けられました この発見は FRBの繰り返しが様々な環境から生じることを示唆し その起源に関する以前の仮定に 異議を唱えます
科学分野:
- 天文学と天体物理学
- 宇宙現象
背景:
- FRBは謎めいた力強い 銀河系外の無線信号で 起源は不明です
- 100以上のFRB源が発見されていますが 銀河を宿す場所が正確に特定されているのはわずかです
- 最初の局所的な反復FRB (FRB 121102) は,巨大な銀河の非反復FRBと対照的に,矮星銀河で発見された.
研究 の 目的:
- 繰り返される第2のFast Radio Burst (FRB) 源を正確に位置づけること.
- この新しい反復FRB源の 宿主銀河と局所環境を調査します
- この源の性質を,以前に局所化された反復FRB (FRB 121102) と非反復FRBと比較する.
主な方法:
- 繰り返すFRB源FRB 180916.J0158+65の正確なラジオインターフェロメトリックの位置づけ
- 宿主銀河の性質を特徴付けるための天文観測 (例えば,赤道移転,形態,星形成活動).
- 局所環境の分析,持続的な無線カウンターパーツの検索とファラデー回転の測定を含む.
主要な成果:
- FRB 180916.J0158+65は,近くの巨大な渦巻き銀河 (z = 0.0337 ± 0.0002) の内にある恒星形成領域に正確に位置づけられました.
- 主体銀河とその近さは,既知のFRB主体銀河と大きく異なる.
- 局所的な環境には,発光する恒久的な無線配線がなく,FRB 121102とは異なり,低いファラデー回転量を示している.
結論:
- 繰り返されるFRBは 異なる宿主銀河や 局所的な環境から発生し 独占的に矮星銀河から発生しません
- この発見により,FRBの繰り返しの光度や起源の範囲は以前よりも広いことが示唆されています.
- この発見はFRBの原始体と その進化の経路のモデルを 改訂する必要があるのです
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