Detection of OH absorption against PSR B1849+00

Details Detection of OH absorption against PSR B1849+00 Detection of OH absorption against PSR B1849+00

2003-04-10

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0304179v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

12 pages, 8 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/375779

We have searched for OH absorption against seven pulsars using the Arecibo telescope. In both OH mainlines (at 1665 and 1667 MHz), deep and narrow absorption features were detected toward PSR B1849+00. In addition, we have detected several absorption and emission features against B33.6+0.1, a nearby supernova remnant (SNR). The most interesting result of this study is that a pencil-sharp absorption sample against the PSR differs greatly from the large-angle absorption sample observed against the SNR. If both the PSR and the SNR probe the same molecular cloud then this finding has important implications for absorption studies of the molecular medium, as it shows that the statistics of absorbing OH depends on the size of the background source. We also show that the OH absorption against the PSR most likely originates from a small (<30 arcsec) and dense (>10^5 cm^-3) molecular clump.

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