Discovery of Three Pulsars from a Galactic Center Pulsar Population

Details Discovery of Three Pulsars from a Galactic Center Pulsar Population Discovery of Three Pulsars from a Galactic Center Pulsar Population

2009-08-10

arxiv.org/abs/0908.1331v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Accepted to ApJ Letters

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We report the discovery of three pulsars whose large dispersion measures and angular proximity to \sgr indicate the existence of a Galactic center population of neutron stars. The relatively long periods (0.98 to 1.48 s) most likely reflect strong selection against short-period pulsars from radio-wave scattering at the observation frequency of 2 GHz used in our survey with the Green Bank Telescope. One object (PSR J1746-2850I) has a characteristic spindown age of only 13 kyr along with a high surface magnetic field $\sim 4\times 10^{13}$ G. It and a second object found in the same telescope pointing, PSR J1746-2850II (which has the highest known dispersion measure among pulsars), may have originated from recent star formation in the Arches or Quintuplet clusters given their angular locations. Along with a third object, PSR J1745-2910, and two similar high-dispersion, long-period pulsars reported by Johnston et al. (2006), the five objects found so far are 10 to 15 arc min from \sgr, consistent with there being a large pulsar population in the Galactic center, most of whose members are undetectable in relatively low-frequency surveys because of pulse broadening from the same scattering volume that angularly broadens \sgr and OH/IR masers.

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