The Anomalous Acceleration of PSR J2043+1711: Long-Period Orbital Companion or Stellar Flyby?
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| author | Donlon II, Thomas Chakrabarti, Sukanya Lam, Michael T. Huber, Daniel Hey, Daniel Ramirez-Ruiz, Enrico Shappee, Benjamin Kaplan, David L. Agazie, Gabriella Anumarlapudi, Akash Archibald, Anne M. Arzoumanian, Zaven Baker, Paul T. Brook, Paul R. Cromartie, H. Thankful Crowter, Kathryn DeCesar, Megan E. Demorest, Paul B. Dolch, Timothy Ferrara, Elizabeth C. Fiore, William Fonseca, Emmanuel Freedman, Gabriel E. Garver-Daniels, Nate Gentile, Peter A. Glaser, Joseph Good, Deborah C. Hazboun, Jeffrey S. Huber, Mark Jennings, Ross J. Jones, Megan L. Kerr, Matthew Lorimer, Duncan R. Luo, Jing Lynch, Ryan S. McEwen, Alexander McLaughlin, Maura A. McMann, Natasha Meyers, Bradley W. Ng, Cherry Nice, David J. Pennucci, Timothy T. Perera, Benetge B. P. Pol, Nihan S. Radovan, Henri A. Ransom, Scott M. Ray, Paul S. Schmiedekamp, Ann Schmiedekamp, Carl Shapiro-Albert, Brent J. Stairs, Ingrid H. Stovall, Kevin Susobhanan, Abhimanyu Swiggum, Joseph K. Tucker, Michael A. Wahl, Haley M. |
| author_facet | Donlon II, Thomas Chakrabarti, Sukanya Lam, Michael T. Huber, Daniel Hey, Daniel Ramirez-Ruiz, Enrico Shappee, Benjamin Kaplan, David L. Agazie, Gabriella Anumarlapudi, Akash Archibald, Anne M. Arzoumanian, Zaven Baker, Paul T. Brook, Paul R. Cromartie, H. Thankful Crowter, Kathryn DeCesar, Megan E. Demorest, Paul B. Dolch, Timothy Ferrara, Elizabeth C. Fiore, William Fonseca, Emmanuel Freedman, Gabriel E. Garver-Daniels, Nate Gentile, Peter A. Glaser, Joseph Good, Deborah C. Hazboun, Jeffrey S. Huber, Mark Jennings, Ross J. Jones, Megan L. Kerr, Matthew Lorimer, Duncan R. Luo, Jing Lynch, Ryan S. McEwen, Alexander McLaughlin, Maura A. McMann, Natasha Meyers, Bradley W. Ng, Cherry Nice, David J. Pennucci, Timothy T. Perera, Benetge B. P. Pol, Nihan S. Radovan, Henri A. Ransom, Scott M. Ray, Paul S. Schmiedekamp, Ann Schmiedekamp, Carl Shapiro-Albert, Brent J. Stairs, Ingrid H. Stovall, Kevin Susobhanan, Abhimanyu Swiggum, Joseph K. Tucker, Michael A. Wahl, Haley M. |
| contents | Based on the rate of change of its orbital period, PSR J2043+1711 has a substantial peculiar acceleration of 3.5 $\pm$ 0.8 mm/s/yr, which deviates from the acceleration predicted by equilibrium Milky Way models at a $4σ$ level. The magnitude of the peculiar acceleration is too large to be explained by disequilibrium effects of the Milky Way interacting with orbiting dwarf galaxies ($\sim$1 mm/s/yr), and too small to be caused by period variations due to the pulsar being a redback. We identify and examine two plausible causes for the anomalous acceleration: a stellar flyby, and a long-period orbital companion. We identify a main-sequence star in \textit{Gaia} DR3 and Pan-STARRS DR2 with the correct mass, distance, and on-sky position to potentially explain the observed peculiar acceleration. However, the star and the pulsar system have substantially different proper motions, indicating that they are not gravitationally bound. However, it is possible that this is an unrelated star that just happens to be located near J2043+1711 along our line of sight (chance probability of 1.6\%). Therefore, we also constrain possible orbital parameters for a circumbinary companion in a hierarchical triple system with J2043+1711; the changes in the spindown rate of the pulsar are consistent with an outer object that has an orbital period of 80 kyr, a companion mass of 0.3 $M_\odot$ (indicative of a white dwarf or low-mass star), and a semi-major axis of 2000 AU. Continued timing and/or future faint optical observations of J2043+1711 may eventually allow us to differentiate between these scenarios. |
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| spellingShingle | The Anomalous Acceleration of PSR J2043+1711: Long-Period Orbital Companion or Stellar Flyby? Donlon II, Thomas Chakrabarti, Sukanya Lam, Michael T. Huber, Daniel Hey, Daniel Ramirez-Ruiz, Enrico Shappee, Benjamin Kaplan, David L. Agazie, Gabriella Anumarlapudi, Akash Archibald, Anne M. Arzoumanian, Zaven Baker, Paul T. Brook, Paul R. Cromartie, H. Thankful Crowter, Kathryn DeCesar, Megan E. Demorest, Paul B. Dolch, Timothy Ferrara, Elizabeth C. Fiore, William Fonseca, Emmanuel Freedman, Gabriel E. Garver-Daniels, Nate Gentile, Peter A. Glaser, Joseph Good, Deborah C. Hazboun, Jeffrey S. Huber, Mark Jennings, Ross J. Jones, Megan L. Kerr, Matthew Lorimer, Duncan R. Luo, Jing Lynch, Ryan S. McEwen, Alexander McLaughlin, Maura A. McMann, Natasha Meyers, Bradley W. Ng, Cherry Nice, David J. Pennucci, Timothy T. Perera, Benetge B. P. Pol, Nihan S. Radovan, Henri A. Ransom, Scott M. Ray, Paul S. Schmiedekamp, Ann Schmiedekamp, Carl Shapiro-Albert, Brent J. Stairs, Ingrid H. Stovall, Kevin Susobhanan, Abhimanyu Swiggum, Joseph K. Tucker, Michael A. Wahl, Haley M. Solar and Stellar Astrophysics Astrophysics of Galaxies High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Based on the rate of change of its orbital period, PSR J2043+1711 has a substantial peculiar acceleration of 3.5 $\pm$ 0.8 mm/s/yr, which deviates from the acceleration predicted by equilibrium Milky Way models at a $4σ$ level. The magnitude of the peculiar acceleration is too large to be explained by disequilibrium effects of the Milky Way interacting with orbiting dwarf galaxies ($\sim$1 mm/s/yr), and too small to be caused by period variations due to the pulsar being a redback. We identify and examine two plausible causes for the anomalous acceleration: a stellar flyby, and a long-period orbital companion. We identify a main-sequence star in \textit{Gaia} DR3 and Pan-STARRS DR2 with the correct mass, distance, and on-sky position to potentially explain the observed peculiar acceleration. However, the star and the pulsar system have substantially different proper motions, indicating that they are not gravitationally bound. However, it is possible that this is an unrelated star that just happens to be located near J2043+1711 along our line of sight (chance probability of 1.6\%). Therefore, we also constrain possible orbital parameters for a circumbinary companion in a hierarchical triple system with J2043+1711; the changes in the spindown rate of the pulsar are consistent with an outer object that has an orbital period of 80 kyr, a companion mass of 0.3 $M_\odot$ (indicative of a white dwarf or low-mass star), and a semi-major axis of 2000 AU. Continued timing and/or future faint optical observations of J2043+1711 may eventually allow us to differentiate between these scenarios. |
| title | The Anomalous Acceleration of PSR J2043+1711: Long-Period Orbital Companion or Stellar Flyby? |
| topic | Solar and Stellar Astrophysics Astrophysics of Galaxies High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.06482 |