Prospects for accurate distance measurements of pulsars with the Square Kilometre Array: Enabling fundamental physics

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作者
Smits, R. [1 ,2 ]
Tingay, S. J. [3 ]
Wex, N. [4 ]
Kramer, M. [4 ]
Stappers, B. [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Manchester, Jodrell Bank Ctr Astrophys, Manchester M13 9PL, Lancs, England
[2] ASTRON, NL-7991 PD Dwingeloo, Netherlands
[3] Curtin Univ, Int Ctr Radio Astron Res, Bentley, WA 6102, Australia
[4] Max Planck Inst Radioastron, D-53121 Bonn, Germany
基金
欧洲研究理事会;
关键词
parallaxes; pulsars: general; stars: neutron; telescopes; astrometry; RELATIVISTIC CELESTIAL MECHANICS; BINARY-SYSTEMS; PARALLAX; MOTION;
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10.1051/0004-6361/201016141
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
摘要
Parallax measurements of pulsars allow for accurate measurements of the interstellar electron density and contribute to accurate tests of general relativity using binary systems. The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will be an ideal instrument for measuring the parallax of pulsars, because it has a very high sensitivity, as well as baselines extending up to several thousands of kilometres. We performed simulations to estimate the number of pulsars for which the parallax can be measured with the SKA and the distance to which a parallax can be measured. We compare two different methods. The first method measures the parallax directly by utilising the long baselines of the SKA to form high angular resolution images. The second method uses the arrival times of the radio signals of pulsars to fit a transformation between time coordinates in the terrestrial frame and the comoving pulsar frame directly yielding the parallax. We find that with the first method a parallax with an accuracy of 20% or less can be measured up to a maximum distance of 13 kpc, which would include 9000 pulsars. By timing pulsars with the most stable arrival times for the radio emission, parallaxes can be measured for about 3600 ms pulsars up to a distance of 9 kpc with an accuracy of 20%.
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