Multiwavelength Constraints on the Origin of a Nearby Repeating Fast Radio Burst Source in a Globular Cluster

作     者：Pearlman, Aaron B. Scholz, Paul Bethapudi, Suryarao Hessels, Jason W.T. Kaspi, Victoria M. Kirsten, Franz Nimmo, Kenzie Spitler, Laura G. Fonseca, Emmanuel Meyers, Bradley W. Stairs, Ingrid H. Tan, Chia Min Bhardwaj, Mohit Chatterjee, Shami Cook, Amanda M. Curtin, Alice P. Dong, Fengqiu Adam Eftekhari, Tarraneh Gaensler, B.M. Güver, Tolga Kaczmarek, Jane Leung, Calvin Masui, Kiyoshi W. Michilli, Daniele Prince, Thomas A. Sand, Ketan R. Shin, Kaitlyn Smith, Kendrick M. Tendulkar, Shriharsh P. 

作者机构：Department of Physics McGill University MontréalQC Canada Trottier Space Institute McGill University MontréalQC Canada Division of Physics Mathematics and Astronomy California Institute of Technology PasadenaCA United States Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics University of Toronto TorontoON Canada Department of Physics and Astronomy York University TorontoON Canada Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie Bonn Germany Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy University of Amsterdam Amsterdam Netherlands ASTRON Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy Dwingeloo Netherlands Department of Space Earth and Environment Chalmers University of Technology Onsala Space Observatory Onsala Sweden MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research Massachusetts Institute of Technology CambridgeMA United States Department of Physics and Astronomy West Virginia University MorgantownWV United States Center for Gravitational Waves and Cosmology West Virginia University Chestnut Ridge Research Building MorgantownWV United States International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research Curtin University BentleyWA Australia Department of Physics and Astronomy University of British Columbia VancouverBC Canada McWilliams Center for Cosmology Department of Physics Carnegie Mellon University PittsburghPA United States Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science Cornell University IthacaNY United States David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics University of Toronto TorontoON Canada Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics Department of Physics and Astronomy Northwestern University EvanstonIL United States Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics University of California Santa Cruz Santa CruzCA United States Department of Astronomy and Space Sciences Science Faculty Istanbul University Istanbul Turkey Istanbul University Observatory Research and Application Center Istanbul University Istanbul Turkey CSIRO Space and Astronomy Parkes Observatory ParkesNSW Australia Department of Computer Science Math Physics and Statistics University of British Columbia Okanagan Campus KelownaBC Canada Department of Astronomy University of California Berkeley BerkeleyCA United States Department of Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology CambridgeMA United States Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics WaterlooON Canada Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Mumbai India National Centre for Radio Astrophysics Pune India CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholars Program MaRS Centre TorontoON Canada 

出 版 物：《arXiv》 (arXiv)

年 卷 期：2023年

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主　　题：X ray astronomy 

摘      要：The precise origins of fast radio bursts (FRBs) remain unknown. Multiwavelength observations of nearby FRB sources can provide important insights into the enigmatic FRB phenomenon. Here, we present results from a sensitive, broadband X-ray and radio observational campaign of FRB 20200120E, the closest known extragalactic repeating FRB source (located 3.63 Mpc away in an ∼10-Gyr-old globular cluster). We place deep limits on the persistent and prompt X-ray emission from FRB 20200120E, which we use to constrain possible origins for the source. We compare our results with various classes of X-ray sources, transients, and FRB models. We find that FRB 20200120E is unlikely to be associated with ultraluminous X-ray bursts, magnetar-like giant flares, or an SGR 1935+2154-like intermediate flare. Although other types of bright magnetar-like intermediate flares and short X-ray bursts would have been detectable from FRB 20200120E during our observations, we cannot entirely rule them out as a class. We show that FRB 20200120E is unlikely to be powered by an ultraluminous X-ray source or a young extragalactic pulsar embedded in a Crab-like nebula. We also provide new constraints on the compatibility of FRB 20200120E with accretion-based FRB models involving X-ray binaries. These results highlight the power of multiwavelength observations of nearby FRBs for discriminating between FRB models. © 2023, CC BY.