PSR J1922+37: a 1.9-second pulsar discovered in the direction of the old open cluster NGC 6791
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| author | Liu, Xiao-Jin Sengar, Rahul Bailes, Matthew Eatough, Ralph P. Yuan, Jianping Wang, Na Zhu, Weiwei Zhou, Lu Gao, He Zhu, Zong-Hong Zhu, Xing-Jiang |
| author_facet | Liu, Xiao-Jin Sengar, Rahul Bailes, Matthew Eatough, Ralph P. Yuan, Jianping Wang, Na Zhu, Weiwei Zhou, Lu Gao, He Zhu, Zong-Hong Zhu, Xing-Jiang |
| contents | More than 300 pulsars have been discovered in Galactic globular clusters; however, none have been found in open clusters. Here we present results from 20-hour pulsar searching observations in seven open clusters with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). Our first discovery is a 1.9-second pulsar (J1922+37) found in the direction of the old open cluster NGC 6791. The measured dispersion measure (DM) implies a distance of 4.79 kpc and 8.92 kpc based on the NE2001 and YMW16 electron density models, respectively. Given the large uncertainty of DM distance estimates, it is likely that PSR J1922+37 is indeed a member of NGC 6791, for which the distance is $4.19\pm0.02$ kpc based on Gaia Data Release 3. If confirmed, PSR J1922+37 will be the first pulsar found in Galactic open clusters. We outline future observations that can confirm this pulsar-open cluster association and discuss the general prospects of finding pulsars in open clusters. |
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| spellingShingle | PSR J1922+37: a 1.9-second pulsar discovered in the direction of the old open cluster NGC 6791 Liu, Xiao-Jin Sengar, Rahul Bailes, Matthew Eatough, Ralph P. Yuan, Jianping Wang, Na Zhu, Weiwei Zhou, Lu Gao, He Zhu, Zong-Hong Zhu, Xing-Jiang High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics More than 300 pulsars have been discovered in Galactic globular clusters; however, none have been found in open clusters. Here we present results from 20-hour pulsar searching observations in seven open clusters with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). Our first discovery is a 1.9-second pulsar (J1922+37) found in the direction of the old open cluster NGC 6791. The measured dispersion measure (DM) implies a distance of 4.79 kpc and 8.92 kpc based on the NE2001 and YMW16 electron density models, respectively. Given the large uncertainty of DM distance estimates, it is likely that PSR J1922+37 is indeed a member of NGC 6791, for which the distance is $4.19\pm0.02$ kpc based on Gaia Data Release 3. If confirmed, PSR J1922+37 will be the first pulsar found in Galactic open clusters. We outline future observations that can confirm this pulsar-open cluster association and discuss the general prospects of finding pulsars in open clusters. |
| title | PSR J1922+37: a 1.9-second pulsar discovered in the direction of the old open cluster NGC 6791 |
| topic | High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.08055 |