Faraday rotation measures of Northern hemisphere pulsars using CHIME/Pulsar

Author:

Ng C1ORCID,Pandhi A2,Naidu A34,Fonseca E34,Kaspi V M34,Masui K W56,Mckinven R12,Renard A1,Scholz P17,Stairs I H8,Tendulkar S P34,Vanderlinde K12

Affiliation:

1. Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto, 50 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3H4, Canada

2. David A. Dunlap Institute Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto, 50 St. George Street, Toronto, ON M5S 3H4, Canada

3. Department of Physics, McGill University, 3600 rue University, Montréal, QC H3A 2T8, Canada

4. McGill Space Institute, McGill University, 3550 rue University, Montréal, QC H3A 2A7, Canada

5. MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

6. Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

7. Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory, Herzberg Astronomy & Astrophysics Research Centre, National Research Council Canada, PO Box 248, Penticton, V2A 6J9, Canada

8. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, 6224 Agricultural Road, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada

Abstract

ABSTRACT Using commissioning data from the first year of operation of the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment’s (CHIME) Pulsar backend system, we conduct a systematic analysis of the Faraday Rotation Measure (RM) of the Northern hemisphere pulsars detected by CHIME. We present 55 new RMs as well as obtain improved RM uncertainties for 25 further pulsars. CHIME’s low observing frequency and wide bandwidth between 400 and 800 MHz contribute to the precision of our measurements, whereas the high cadence observation provides extremely high signal-to-noise co-added data. Our results represent a significant increase of the pulsar RM census, particularly regarding the Northern hemisphere. These new RMs are for sources that are located in the Galactic plane out to 10 kpc, as well as off the plane to a scale height of ∼16 kpc. This improved knowledge of the Faraday sky will contribute to future Galactic large-scale magnetic structure and ionosphere modelling.

Funder

National Research Council Canada

NSERC

Canadian Institute for Advanced Research

University of Toronto

R. Howard Webster Foundation

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Subject

Space and Planetary Science,Astronomy and Astrophysics

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