FAST discovery of an extremely radio-faint millisecond pulsar from the Fermi-LAT unassociated source 3FGL J0318.1+0252
dc.contributor.author | WANG, Pei | |
dc.contributor.author | LI, Di | |
dc.contributor.author | CLARK, Colin J. | |
dc.contributor.author | PARKINSON, Pablo Saz | |
dc.contributor.author | HOU, Xian | |
dc.contributor.author | ZHU, Weiwei | |
dc.contributor.author | QIAN, Lei | |
dc.contributor.author | YUE, Youling | |
dc.contributor.author | PAN, Zhichen | |
dc.contributor.author | LIU, Zhijie | |
dc.contributor.author | YU, Xuhong | |
dc.contributor.author | XIE, Xiaoyao | |
dc.contributor.author | ZHI, Qijun | |
dc.contributor.author | ZHANG, Hui | |
dc.contributor.author | YAO, Jumei | |
dc.contributor.author | YAN, Jun | |
dc.contributor.author | ZHANG, Chengmin | |
dc.contributor.author | RAY, Paul S. | |
dc.contributor.author | KERR, Matthew | |
hal.structure.identifier | Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Bordeaux Gradignan [CENBG] | |
dc.contributor.author | SMITH, David A. | |
dc.contributor.author | MICHELSON, Peter F. | |
dc.contributor.author | FERRARA, Elizabeth C. | |
dc.contributor.author | THOMPSON, David J. | |
dc.contributor.author | SHEN, Zhiqiang | |
dc.contributor.author | WANG, Na | |
dc.date.issued | 2021 | |
dc.description.abstractEn | High sensitivity radio searches of unassociated γ-ray sources have proven to be an effective way of finding new pulsars. Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) during its commissioning phase, we have carried out a number of targeted deep searches of Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) γ-ray sources. On February 27, 2018 we discovered an isolated millisecond pulsar (MSP), PSR J0318+0253, coincident with the unassociated γ-ray source 3FGL J0318.1+0252. PSR J0318+0253 has a spin period of 5.19 ms, a dispersion measure (DM) of 26 pc cm$^{−3}$ corresponding to a DM distance of about 1.3 kpc, and a period-averaged flux density of (∼11±2) µJy at L-band (1.05–1.45 GHz). Among all high energy MSPs, PSR J0318+0253 is the faintest ever detected in radio bands, by a factor of at least ∼4 in terms of L-band fluxes. With the aid of the radio ephemeris, an analysis of 9.6 years of Fermi-LAT data revealed that PSR J0318+0253 also displays strong γ-ray pulsations. Follow-up observations carried out by both Arecibo and FAST suggest a likely spectral turn-over around 350 MHz. This is the first result from the collaboration between FAST and the Fermi-LAT teams as well as the first confirmed new MSP discovery by FAST, raising hopes for the detection of many more MSPs. Such discoveries will make a significant contribution to our understanding of the neutron star zoo while potentially contributing to the future detection of gravitational waves, via pulsar timing array (PTA) experiments. | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.subject.en | FAST | |
dc.subject.en | pulsar | |
dc.subject.en | radio | |
dc.subject.en | gamma rays | |
dc.title.en | FAST discovery of an extremely radio-faint millisecond pulsar from the Fermi-LAT unassociated source 3FGL J0318.1+0252 | |
dc.type | Article de revue | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/s11433-021-1757-5 | |
dc.subject.hal | Physique [physics]/Astrophysique [astro-ph] | |
dc.identifier.arxiv | 2109.00715 | |
bordeaux.journal | Sci.China Phys.Mech.Astron | |
bordeaux.page | 129562 | |
bordeaux.volume | 64 | |
bordeaux.issue | 12 | |
bordeaux.peerReviewed | oui | |
hal.identifier | hal-03351835 | |
hal.version | 1 | |
hal.popular | non | |
hal.audience | Internationale | |
hal.origin.link | https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr//hal-03351835v1 | |
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