THE EINSTEIN@HOME SEARCH FOR RADIO PULSARS AND PSR J2007+2722 DISCOVERY

被引：47

作者：

Allen, B. ^{[1
,2
,3
]}

Knispel, B. ^{[1
,2
]}

Cordes, J. M. ^{[4
]}

Deneva, J. S. ^{[5
]}

Hessels, J. W. T. ^{[6
,7
]}

Anderson, D. ^{[8
]}

Aulbert, C. ^{[1
,2
]}

Bock, O. ^{[1
,2
]}

Brazier, A. ^{[4
,9
]}

Chatterjee, S. ^{[4
]}

Demorest, P. B. ^{[10
]}

Eggenstein, H. B. ^{[1
,2
]}

Fehrmann, H. ^{[1
,2
]}

Gotthelf, E. V. ^{[11
]}

Hammer, D. ^{[3
]}

Kaspi, V. M. ^{[12
]}

Kramer, M. ^{[13
]}

Lyne, A. G. ^{[14
]}

Machenschalk, B. ^{[1
,2
]}

McLaughlin, M. A. ^{[15
]}

Messenger, C. ^{[1
,2
]}

Pletsch, H. J. ^{[1
,2
]}

Ransom, S. M. ^{[10
]}

Stairs, I. H. ^{[16
]}

Stappers, B. W. ^{[14
]}

Bhat, N. D. R. ^{[17
,18
]}

Bogdanov, S. ^{[11
]}

Camilo, F. ^{[5
,11
]}

Champion, D. J. ^{[13
]}

Crawford, F. ^{[19
]}

Desvignes, G. ^{[20
,21
]}

Freire, P. C. C. ^{[13
]}

Heald, G. ^{[6
]}

Jenet, F. A. ^{[22
]}

Lazarus, P. ^{[13
]}

Lee, K. J. ^{[13
]}

van Leeuwen, J. ^{[6
,7
]}

Lynch, R. ^{[12
]}

Papa, M. A. ^{[1
,2
,3
]}

Prix, R. ^{[1
,2
]}

Rosen, R. ^{[23
]}

Scholz, P. ^{[12
]}

Siemens, X. ^{[3
]}

Stovall, K. ^{[22
]}

Venkataraman, A. ^{[5
]}

Zhu, W. ^{[16
]}

机构：

[1] Max Planck Inst Gravitat Phys, D-30167 Hannover, Germany

[2] Leibniz Univ Hannover, D-30167 Hannover, Germany

[3] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Phys, Milwaukee, WI 53211 USA

[4] Cornell Univ, Dept Astron, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA

[5] Arecibo Observ, Arecibo, PR 00612 USA

[6] Netherlands Inst Radio Astron, ASTRON, NL-7990 AA Dwingeloo, Netherlands

[7] Univ Amsterdam, Astron Inst Anton Pannekoek, NL-1098 XH Amsterdam, Netherlands

[8] Univ Calif Berkeley, Space Sci Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA

[9] Cornell Univ, NAIC, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA

[10] NRAO Natl Radio Astron Observ, Charlottesville, VA 22903 USA

[11] Columbia Univ, Columbia Astrophys Lab, New York, NY 10027 USA

[12] McGill Univ, Dept Phys, Montreal, PQ H3A 2T8, Canada

[13] Max Planck Inst Radioastron, D-53121 Bonn, Germany

[14] Univ Manchester, Sch Phys & Astron, Jodrell Bank Ctr Astrophys, Manchester M13 9PL, Lancs, England

[15] W Virginia Univ, Dept Phys, Morgantown, WV 26506 USA

[16] Univ British Columbia, Dept Phys & Astron, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada

[17] Swinburne Univ Technol, Ctr Astrophys & Supercomp, Hawthorn, Vic 3122, Australia

[18] Curtin Univ, Int Ctr Radio Astron Res, Bentley, WA 6102, Australia

[19] Franklin & Marshall Coll, Dept Phys & Astron, Lancaster, PA 17604 USA

[20] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Astron, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA

[21] Univ Calif Berkeley, Radio Astron Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA

[22] Univ Texas Brownsville, Ctr Gravitat Wave Astron, Brownsville, TX 78520 USA

[23] NRAO, Green Bank, WV 24944 USA

来源：

ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL | 2013年 / 773卷 / 02期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会; 加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会;

关键词：

binaries: close; gravitational waves; methods: data analysis; pulsars: general; pulsars: individual (PSR J2007+2722); surveys; LARGE-AREA TELESCOPE; GEODETIC SPIN PRECESSION; NEUTRON-STAR; X-RAY; CONSTRAINING POPULATION; MILLISECOND PULSARS; SYNTHESIS MODELS; TIMING PACKAGE; EMISSION BEAM; BINARY;

D O I：

10.1088/0004-637X/773/2/91

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

Einstein@Home aggregates the computer power of hundreds of thousands of volunteers from 193 countries, to search for new neutron stars using data from electromagnetic and gravitational-wave detectors. This paper presents a detailed description of the search for new radio pulsars using Pulsar ALFA survey data from the Arecibo Observatory. The enormous computing power allows this search to cover a new region of parameter space; it can detect pulsars in binary systems with orbital periods as short as 11 minutes. We also describe the first Einstein@Home discovery, the 40.8 Hz isolated pulsar PSR J2007+2722, and provide a full timing model. PSR J2007+2722's pulse profile is remarkably wide with emission over almost the entire spin period. This neutron star is most likely a disrupted recycled pulsar, about as old as its characteristic spin-down age of 404 Myr. However, there is a small chance that it was born recently, with a low magnetic field. If so, upper limits on the X-ray flux suggest but cannot prove that PSR J2007+2722 is at least similar to 100 kyr old. In the future, we expect that the massive computing power provided by volunteers should enable many additional radio pulsar discoveries.

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