Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jan 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010aas...21543004m&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #215, #430.04; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 42, p.356
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
The model of pulsar emission through superluminally induced polarization currents (SLIP) predicts that pulsations produced by such currents, induced by a rotating, magnetized body at many light cylinder radii, as would be the case for a neutron star born within any star of >1.5 solar masses, will drive pulsations close to the axis of rotation. Such highly collimated pulsations (<= 1 in 10,000), and the similarly collimated jets of particles which it drove, including 1e-6 solar masses with velocities of up to 0.95 c, were responsible for the features of its very early light curve (days 3 - 20), the "Mystery Spot," observed slightly later (days 30 - 50 and >), and later, in less collimated form, the bipolarity of SN 1987A itself. The pulsations and jet interacted with circumstellar material (CM), to produce features observed in the very early light curve which correspond to: 1) the entry of the pulsed beam into the CM; 2) the entry of the 0.95 c particles into the CM; 3) the exit of the pulsed beam from the CM (with contributions in the B and I bands -- the same as later inferred/observed for its 2.14 ms pulsations); and 4) the exit of the fastest particles from the CM. Because of the energy requirements of the jet in these early stages, the spindown required of its pulsar could exceed 1e-5 Hz/s at a rotation rate of 500 Hz. There is no reason to suggest that this mechanism is not universally applicable to all SNe with gaseous remnants remaining, and thus SN 1987A is the Rosetta Stone for 99% of SNe, gamma-ray bursts, and millisecond pulsars.
This work was supported in part by the Department of Energy through the Los Alamos Directed Research Grant DR20080085.
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