使用连续引力波搜索测试银河系中心GeV过剩的脉冲星解释
Andrew L Miller1,2,3, Yue Zhao4
1Université catholique de Louvain, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
Physical review letters
|September 8, 2023
概括
毫秒脉冲星可能无法解释来自银河系中心的费米GeV马射线过剩. 引力波搜索结果排除了脉冲星模型的很大一部分,挑战了这种暗物质替代方案.
科学领域:
- 天体物理学 天体物理学
- 宇宙学的宇宙学是什么?
- 引力波天文学 引力波天文学
背景情况:
- 费米观察到的来自银河系中心的GeV马射线过量,有两个主要的起源:暗物质毁灭或毫秒脉冲星.
- 毫秒脉冲星是快速旋转的中子星,它们对观测到的马射线过剩的潜在贡献仍然是研究的主题.
研究的目的:
- 为了调查未解决的毫秒脉冲星是否可以解释观测到的来自银河系中心的GeV马射线过剩.
- 用最近的引力波数据来限制毫秒脉冲星的数量.
主要方法:
- 利用LIGO和Virgo的O3全天空搜索结果,发现来自孤立中子星的连续引力波.
- 定义了一个亮度函数来估计解释马射线过剩所需的毫秒脉冲星的数量.
- 模拟了毫秒脉冲星变形,以确定它们的圆分布和引力波辐射.
主要成果:
- 来自O3连续引力波搜索的零结果排除了脉冲星亮度函数内的实质性参数空间.
- 该研究评估了不同的模式选择如何影响这些排斥地区.
结论:
- 这些发现挑战了毫秒脉冲星是银河系中心GeV马射线过剩的主要来源的假设.
- 这项研究在马射线天体物理学,引力波天文学和暗物质物理学之间建立了新的联系.
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