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Supernova 1993J: a veiled pulsar in a binary system? | | Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz
; Aldo M. Serenelli
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2 Jul 2004 | | Journal: | Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 353 (2004) L7 | | Subject: | astro-ph | | Affiliation: | IAS | | Abstract: | The recent report of a binary companion to the progenitor of supernova 1993J may provide important clues for identifying the nature of the nascent compact object. Given the estimates of the progenitor mass, the potential power source is probably a pulsar rather than an accreting black hole. If there is a pulsar, one would expect the rotational luminosity to be stored and reprocessed by the supernova remnant, but no pulsar nebula has yet been seen. The lack of detection of an X-ray synchrotron nebula should be taken as strong evidence against the presence of a bright pulsar. This is because absorption by the surrounding supernova gas should be negligible for the light of the companion star to have been detected. A model is developed here for the luminosity of the pulsar nebula in SN 1993J, which is then used to predict the spin-down power of the putative pulsar. If one exists, it can be providing no more than about 6 x 10^{39} erg/s. With an initial rotation period of 10-30 ms, as extrapolated from young galactic pulsars, the nascent neutron star can have either a weak magnetic field, B < 10^{11} G, or one so strong, B > 10^{15} G, that its spin was rapidly slowed down. The companion star, if bound to the neutron star, should provide ample targets for the pulsar wind to interact and produce high-energy gamma-rays. The expected non-pulsed, GeV signal is calculated; it could be detected by current and future experiments provided that the pulsar wind velocity is similar to that of the Crab Nebula. | | Source: | arXiv, astro-ph/0407051 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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