A Candidate Open Cluster Pulsar: Timing Analysis of PSR J1922+3745 in NGC 6791
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| author | Liu, Xiao-Jin Eatough, Ralph P. Pan, Zhichen Bailes, Matthew Jing, Wei-Cong Wang, Yong-Sheng Ouyang, Xujia Zhang, Yong Sengar, Rahul Yuan, Jianping Wang, Na Zhu, Weiwei Jiang, Peng Qian, Lei Zhou, Lu Gao, He Zhu, Zong-Hong Zhu, Xing-Jiang |
| author_facet | Liu, Xiao-Jin Eatough, Ralph P. Pan, Zhichen Bailes, Matthew Jing, Wei-Cong Wang, Yong-Sheng Ouyang, Xujia Zhang, Yong Sengar, Rahul Yuan, Jianping Wang, Na Zhu, Weiwei Jiang, Peng Qian, Lei Zhou, Lu Gao, He Zhu, Zong-Hong Zhu, Xing-Jiang |
| contents | PSR J1922+3745 was recently identified as a radio pulsar toward the old open cluster NGC 6791, raising the prospect of the first pulsar associated with an open cluster. We report FAST follow-up observations that yield a phase-coherent timing solution, a precise position, a measurement of the spin-down rate and the pulsar's polarization properties. PSR J1922+3745 is consistent with an isolated slow pulsar with a characteristic age of 7.8 Myr, comparable to the small population of long-period pulsars found in globular clusters. Motivated by the potential cluster association, we re-process deeper searches of the NGC 6791 field at higher sensitivity but detect no additional pulsars. We also assess whether HI absorption spectroscopy can provide a useful distance constraint and find that such measurements are unlikely to be constraining with currently available sensitivity. Consequently, existing evidence does not yet establish membership in NGC 6791. Further deep searches for additional pulsars with similar dispersion measures in the cluster field will likely be the most direct path to confirming a physical association. |
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| spellingShingle | A Candidate Open Cluster Pulsar: Timing Analysis of PSR J1922+3745 in NGC 6791 Liu, Xiao-Jin Eatough, Ralph P. Pan, Zhichen Bailes, Matthew Jing, Wei-Cong Wang, Yong-Sheng Ouyang, Xujia Zhang, Yong Sengar, Rahul Yuan, Jianping Wang, Na Zhu, Weiwei Jiang, Peng Qian, Lei Zhou, Lu Gao, He Zhu, Zong-Hong Zhu, Xing-Jiang High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena PSR J1922+3745 was recently identified as a radio pulsar toward the old open cluster NGC 6791, raising the prospect of the first pulsar associated with an open cluster. We report FAST follow-up observations that yield a phase-coherent timing solution, a precise position, a measurement of the spin-down rate and the pulsar's polarization properties. PSR J1922+3745 is consistent with an isolated slow pulsar with a characteristic age of 7.8 Myr, comparable to the small population of long-period pulsars found in globular clusters. Motivated by the potential cluster association, we re-process deeper searches of the NGC 6791 field at higher sensitivity but detect no additional pulsars. We also assess whether HI absorption spectroscopy can provide a useful distance constraint and find that such measurements are unlikely to be constraining with currently available sensitivity. Consequently, existing evidence does not yet establish membership in NGC 6791. Further deep searches for additional pulsars with similar dispersion measures in the cluster field will likely be the most direct path to confirming a physical association. |
| title | A Candidate Open Cluster Pulsar: Timing Analysis of PSR J1922+3745 in NGC 6791 |
| topic | High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.16145 |