An extreme magneto-ionic environment associated with the fast radio burst source FRB 121102

被引：396

作者：

Michilli, D. ^{[1
,2
]}

Seymour, A. ^{[3
]}

Hessels, J. W. T. ^{[1
,2
]}

Spitler, L. G. ^{[4
]}

Gajjar, V. ^{[5
,6
,7
]}

Archibald, A. M. ^{[1
,2
]}

Bower, G. C. ^{[8
]}

Chatterjee, S. ^{[9
,10
]}

Cordes, J. M. ^{[9
,10
]}

Gourdji, K. ^{[2
]}

Heald, G. H. ^{[11
]}

Kaspi, V. M. ^{[12
,13
]}

Law, C. J. ^{[14
,15
]}

Sobey, C. ^{[11
,16
]}

Adams, E. A. K. ^{[1
,17
]}

Bassa, C. G. ^{[1
]}

Bogdanov, S. ^{[18
]}

Brinkman, C. ^{[19
]}

Demorest, P. ^{[20
]}

Fernandez, F. ^{[3
]}

Hellbourg, G. ^{[14
,15
]}

Lazio, T. J. W. ^{[21
]}

Lynch, R. S. ^{[22
,23
]}

Maddox, N. ^{[1
]}

Marcote, B. ^{[24
]}

McLaughlin, M. A. ^{[23
,25
]}

Paragi, Z. ^{[24
]}

Ransom, S. M. ^{[26
]}

Scholz, P. ^{[27
]}

Siemion, A. P. V. ^{[14
,15
,28
,29
]}

Tendulkar, S. P. ^{[12
,13
]}

Van Rooy, P. ^{[30
]}

Wharton, R. S. ^{[4
]}

Whitlow, D. ^{[3
]}

机构：

[1] Netherlands Inst Radio Astron, ASTRON, Postbus 2, NL-7990 AA Dwingeloo, Netherlands

[2] Univ Amsterdam, Anton Pannekoek Inst Astron, Sci Pk 904, NL-1098 XH Amsterdam, Netherlands

[3] Natl Astron & Ionosphere Ctr, Arecibo Observ, PR 00612 USA

[4] Max Planck Inst Radioastron, Hugel 69, D-53121 Bonn, Germany

[5] Univ Calif Berkeley, Space Sci Lab, 7 Gauss Way, Albany, CA 94710 USA

[6] Chinese Acad Sci, Xinjiang Astron Observ, 150 Sci 1 St, Urumqi 830011, Xinjiang, Peoples R China

[7] Chinese Acad Sci, Key Lab Radio Astron, Nanjing 210008, Peoples R China

[8] Acad Sinica, Inst Astron & Astrophys, 645 N Aohoku Pl, Hilo, HI 96720 USA

[9] Cornell Univ, Cornell Ctr Astrophys & Planetary Sci, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA

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

[11] CSIRO Astron & Space Sci, 26 Dick Perry Ave, Kensington, WA 6151, Australia

[12] McGill Univ, Dept Phys, 3600 Univ, Montreal, PQ H3A 2T8, Canada

[13] McGill Univ, McGill Space Inst, 3600 Univ, Montreal, PQ H3A 2T8, Canada

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

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

[16] Curtin Univ, Int Ctr Radio Astron Res, GPO Box U1987, Perth, WA 6845, Australia

[17] Univ Groningen, Kapteyn Astron Inst, Postbus 800, NL-9700 AA Groningen, Netherlands

[18] Columbia Univ, Columbia Astrophys Lab, 538 W 120th St, New York, NY 10027 USA

[19] Univ Vermont, Dept Phys, Burlington, VT 05401 USA

[20] Natl Radio Astron Observ, POB O, Socorro, NM 87801 USA

[21] CALTECH, Jet Prop Lab, 4800 Oak Grove Dr, Pasadena, CA 91109 USA

[22] Green Bank Observ, POB 2, Green Bank, WV 24944 USA

[23] Ctr Gravitat Waves & Cosmol, Chestnut Ridge Res Bldg, Morgantown, WV 26505 USA

[24] Joint Inst VLBI ERIC, Postbus 2, NL-7990 AA Dwingeloo, Netherlands

[25] West Virginia Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Morgantown, WV 26506 USA

[26] Natl Radio Astron Observ, Charlottesville, VA 22903 USA

[27] Dominion Radio Astrophys Observ, Herzberg Astron & Astrophys, Natl Res Council Canada, POB 248, Penticton, BC V2A 6J9, Canada

[28] Radboud Univ Nijmegen, Comeniuslaan 4, NL-6525 HP Nijmegen, Netherlands

[29] SETI Inst, 189 North Bernardo Ave 200, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA

[30] Case Western Reserve Univ, Dept Elect Engn & Comp Sci, Cleveland, OH 44106 USA

来源：

NATURE | 2018年 / 553卷 / 7687期

基金：

加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会; 欧洲研究理事会; 美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

SAGITTARIUS-A-ASTERISK; FARADAY-ROTATION; GAMMA-RAY; SUPERNOVA REMNANT; BLACK-HOLE; X-RAY; FIELDS; POLARIZATION; NEBULA; GALAXY;

D O I：

10.1038/nature25149

中图分类号：

O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];

学科分类号：

07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;

摘要：

Fast radio bursts are millisecond-duration, extragalactic radio flashes of unknown physical origin(1-3). The only known repeating fast radio burst source(4-6)-FRB 121102-has been localized to a star-forming region in a dwarf galaxy(7-9) at redshift 0.193 and is spatially coincident with a compact, persistent radio source(7,10). The origin of the bursts, the nature of the persistent source and the properties of the local environment are still unclear. Here we report observations of FRB 121102 that show almost 100 per cent linearly polarized emission at a very high and variable Faraday rotation measure in the source frame (varying from + 1.46 x 10(5) radians per square metre to + 1.33 x 10(5) radians per square metre at epochs separated by seven months) and narrow (below 30 microseconds) temporal structure. The large and variable rotation measure demonstrates that FRB 121102 is in an extreme and dynamic magneto-ionic environment, and the short durations of the bursts suggest a neutron star origin. Such large rotation measures have hitherto been observed(11,12) only in the vicinities of massive black holes (larger than about 10,000 solar masses). Indeed, the properties of the persistent radio source are compatible with those of a low-luminosity, accreting massive black hole(10). The bursts may therefore come from a neutron star in such an environment or could be explained by other models, such as a highly magnetized wind nebula(13) or supernova remnant(14) surrounding a young neutron star.

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页码：182 / +

页数：15

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