Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2004-01-13
Astrophys.J. 606 (2004) 326-332
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
accepted to ApJ; 17 pages, 2 figures, 1 table
Scientific paper
10.1086/382868
Traditional searches for radio pulsars have targeted individual small regions such as supernova remnants or globular clusters, or have covered large contiguous regions of the sky. None of these searches has been specifically directed towards giant supershells, some of which are likely to have been produced by multiple supernova (SN) explosions from an OB association. Here we perform a Montecarlo simulation of the pulsar population associated with supershells powered by multiple SNe. We predict that several tens of radio pulsars could be detected with current instruments associated with the largest Galactic supershells (with kinetic energies >~ 10^{53} ergs), and a few pulsars with the smaller ones. We test these predictions for some of the supershells which lie in regions covered by past pulsar surveys. For the smaller supershells, our results are consistent with the few detected pulsars per bubble. For the giant supershell GSH 242-03+37, we find the multiple SN hypothesis inconsistent with current data at the 95% level. We stress the importance of undertaking deep pulsar surveys in correlation with supershells. Failure to detect any pulsar enhancement in the largest of them would put serious constraints on the multiple SN origin for them. Conversely, the discovery of the pulsar population associated with a supershell would allow a different/independent approach to the study of pulsar properties.
Gaensler Bryan M.
Perna Rosalba
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