A MeerKAT look at the polarization of 47 Tucanae pulsars: magnetic field implications

Author:

Abbate F1ORCID,Possenti A23,Ridolfi A12ORCID,Venkatraman Krishnan V1,Buchner S4ORCID,Barr E D1ORCID,Bailes M56,Kramer M17ORCID,Cameron A56ORCID,Parthasarathy A1,van Straten W8ORCID,Chen W1ORCID,Camilo F4,Padmanabh P V19ORCID,Mao S A1ORCID,Freire P C C1ORCID,Ransom S M10ORCID,Vleeschower L7,Geyer M4ORCID,Zhang L511

Affiliation:

1. Max Planck Institut für Radioastronomie , Auf dem Hügel 69, D-53121, Bonn, Germany

2. INAF – Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari , Via della Scienza 5, I-09047, Selargius (CA), Italy

3. Department of Physics, Universitá di Cagliari , S.P. Monserrato-Sestu Km 0700, I-09042, Monserrato, Italy

4. South African Radio Astronomy Observatory , 2 Fir Street, Cape Town, 7925, South Africa

5. Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology , Mail H39, PO Box 218, VIC 3122, Australia

6. ARC Center of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav), Swinburne University of Technology , Mail H11, PO Box 218, VIC 3122, Australia

7. Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Manchester , Manchester M13 9PL, UK

8. Institute for Radio Astronomy & Space Research, Auckland University of Technology , Private Bag 92006, Auckland 1142, New Zealand

9. Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institut) , D-30167, Hannover, Germany

10. National Radio Astronomy Observatory , 520 Edgemont Road, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA

11. National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences , A20 Datun Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, China

Abstract

ABSTRACT We present the polarization profiles of 22 pulsars in the globular cluster 47 Tucanae using observations from the MeerKAT radio telescope at UHF band (544–1088 MHz) and report precise values of dispersion measure (DM) and rotation measure (RM). We use these measurements to investigate the presence of turbulence in electron density and magnetic fields. The structure function of DM shows a break at ∼30 arcsec (∼0.6 pc at the distance of 47 Tucanae) that suggests the presence of turbulence in the gas in the cluster driven by the motion of wind-shedding stars. On the other hand, the structure function of RM does not show evidence of a break. This non-detection could be explained either by the limited number of pulsars or by the effects of the intervening gas in the Galaxy along the line of sight. Future pulsar discoveries in the cluster could help confirm the presence and localize the turbulence.

Funder

Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica

Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale

Canadian Institute for Advanced Research

National Science Foundation

National Natural Science Foundation of China

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Subject

Space and Planetary Science,Astronomy and Astrophysics

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