Searching for γ-ray emission from LOTAAS pulsars

The LOw-Frequency ARray(LOFAR)has recently conducted a survey(LOFAR Tied-Array Allsky Survey;LOTAAS)for pulsars in the Northern hemisphere that resulted in discoveries of 73 new pulsars.For the purpose of studying the properties of these pulsars,we search for theirγ-ray counterparts using the all-sky survey data obtained with the Large Area Telescope(LAT)onboard the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope(Fermi).We analyze the LAT data for 70 LOTAAS pulsars(excluding two millisecond pulsars and one with the longest known spin period of 23.5 s).We find one candidate counterpart to PSR J1017+30,which should be searched for theγ-ray pulsation signal once its timing solution is available.For other LOTAAS pulsars,we derive their 0.3-500 GeV flux upper limits.In order to compare the LOTAAS pulsars with the knownγ-ray pulsars,we also derive the 0.3-500 GeVγ-ray fluxes for 112 of the latter contained in the Fermi LAT fourth source catalog.Based on the properties of theγ-ray pulsars,we derive upper limits on the spin-down luminosities of the LOTAAS pulsars.The upper limits are not very constraining but help suggest that most of the LOTAAS pulsars probably have<10³³ erg s^-1 spin-down luminosities and are not expected to be detectable with Fermi LAT.     

利用费米卫星大面积望远镜对脉冲星的观测研究

费米γ射线空间望远镜(Fermi)自2008年8月观测任务开始以来,以其优越的观测性能开启了γ射线天文学研究的新纪元。其搭载的大面积望远镜(LAT)在脉冲星探测和研究方面取得了巨大的成功。除了探测到已知脉冲星的γ射线脉冲辐射信号外,LAT还能够利用γ射线数据的盲寻技术独立发现脉冲星,此外还提供了大量γ射线源进行射电脉冲搜寻。Fermi-LAT的观测带来了γ射线脉冲星数量的显著增长,确立了脉冲星是银河系内主要的γ射线源,并且探测到了毫秒脉冲星的γ射线辐射。一般来说,在长时标下脉冲星的γ射线辐射流量稳定且脉冲形状多呈现双峰结构,能谱可由具有指数截断的幂律谱描述。综述了利用Fermi-LAT数据寻找脉冲辐射信号的方法和研究γ射线脉冲星所得到的主要结果,并简要介绍了近年来在脉冲星研究方面取得的新成果。