Study of consecutive eclipses of pulsar J0024$-$7204O
| Autor: | Abbate, F., Possenti, A., Ridolfi, A., Buchner, S., Geyer, M., Kramer, M., Zhang, L., Corongiu, A., Camilo, F., Bailes, M. |
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| Rok vydání: | 2024 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| Popis: | The eclipses seen in the radio emission of some pulsars can be invaluable to study the properties of the material from the companion stripped away by the pulsar. We present a study of six consecutive eclipses of PSR J0024-7204O in the globular cluster 47 Tucanae as seen by the MeerKAT radio telescope in the UHF (544-1088 MHz) band. A high scintillation state boosted the signal during one of the orbits and allowed a detailed study of the eclipse properties. We measure significant dispersion measure (DM) variations and detect strong scattering that seems to be the dominating mechanism of the eclipses at these frequencies. A complete drop in the linear polarization together with a small increase in the rotation measure suggests the presence of a magnetic field of $\sim 2$ mG. The study of multiple eclipses allowed us to measure difference in the lengths of the eclipses and DM differences of $\sim 0.01$ pc cm$^{-3}$ in consecutive orbits. One orbit in particular shows a delay in recovery of the linear polarization and a visible delay in the arrival of the pulses caused by a stronger scattering event. We suggest that these are caused by a higher variance of density fluctuations during the event. Comment: 14 pages, 8 figures, 9 tables. Accepted for publication on Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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