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20192026
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33 papers

astro-ph.HE2026

A pulsar escaping an ancient open cluster via tidal stripping

Lei Zhang, Xiaoting Fu, Di Li +21

Open clusters are the primary birthplaces of stars in the Milky Way disk, yet their neutron star progeny are rarely found within them, presumably due to supernova-induced kicks tha…

astro-ph.HE2026

A search for Fast Radio Bursts from globular clusters in M49 with FAST

Simon C. -C. Ho, Chris Flynn, Matthew Bailes +7

The origins of fast radio bursts (FRBs) remain uncertain, although magnetars are a leading progenitor candidate. Because magnetars are thought to form primarily through core-collap…

astro-ph.HE2026

FAST Polarization Catalog of FRB 20240114A

Tian-Cong Wang, Jun-Shuo Zhang, Xiao-Hui Liu +60

Polarization measurements of fast radio bursts (FRBs) probe the magnetized plasma surrounding their central engines. FRB~20240114A is an exceptionally active repeating source, with…

astro-ph.HE2026

Discovery of a millisecond pulsar with a CO white dwarf companion

Jie Zhang, Zerui Wang, Lei Zhang +13

We report the discovery and characterization of PSR J1810-0623, a fully recycled millisecond pulsar with a spin period of 4.55 ms, discovered with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture S…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 10 cited

Multi-year Polarimetric Monitoring of Four CHIME-Discovered Repeating Fast Radio Bursts with FAST

Yi Feng, Yong-Kun Zhang, Jintao Xie +50

In this study, we report multi-year polarization measurements of four repeating FRBs initially discovered by CHIME: FRBs~20190117A, 20190208A, 20190303A, and 20190417A. We observed…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Tiny-Scale Properties within the Interstellar Medium towards PSR J16444559: I. Observational Evidence of Turbulence-induced Tiny Scale Atomic Structures

Mengting Liu, Di Li, J. R. Dawson +21

We investigated HI absorption toward a single pulsar, PSR J16444559, and its variability over timescales from days to years, using Murriyang, CSIRO's Parkes Radio Telescope. Our…

astro-ph.HE2025

Probing Globular Cluster with MeerKAT and FAST: A Pulsar Polarization Census

Lei Zhang, Federico Abbate, Di Li +13

Only one globular cluster (GC), 47 Tuc, has been found to contain intracluster medium, with an electron density 100 times higher than that of the ISM in its vicinity. The character…

astro-ph.HE2024

A 44-minute periodic radio transient in a supernova remnant

Di Li, Mao Yuan, Lin Wu +45

Long-period radio transients (LPTs) are a newly discovered class of radio emitters with periods ranging from minutes to hours. The astrophysical nature remains undetermined, partic…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 2 cited

Discovery of a millisecond pulsar associated with Terzan 6

Shi-Jie Gao, Yi-Xuan Shao, Pei Wang +6

Observations show that globular clusters might be among the best places to find millisecond pulsars. However, the globular cluster Terzan 6 seems to be an exception without any pul…

astro-ph.HE2024

The Study of Mode Switching behavior of PSR J0614+2229 Using the Parkes Ultra-wideband Receiver Observations

Yanqing Cai, Shijun Dang, Rai Yuen +21

In this paper, we presented a detailed single pulse and polarization study of PSR J0614+2229 based on the archived data observed on 2019 August 15 (MJD 58710) and September 12 (MJD…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 16 cited

Discovery and Timing of Millisecond Pulsars in the Globular Cluster M5 (NGC 5904) with FAST and Arecibo

Lei Zhang, Paulo C. C. Freire, Alessandro Ridolfi +29

We report on a comprehensive multi-wavelength study of the pulsars in the globular cluster (GC) M5, including the discovery of M5G, a new compact non-eclipsing "black widow" pulsar…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 19 cited

A discovery of Two Slow Pulsars with FAST: "Ronin" from the Globular Cluster M15

Dengke Zhou, Pei Wang, Di Li +26

Globular clusters harbor numerous millisecond pulsars, but long-period pulsars ( ms) are rarely found. In this study, we employed a fast folding algorithm to analyze…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 7 cited

Reciprocating Magnetic Fields in the Pulsar Wind Observed from the Black Widow Pulsar J1720-0534

Chen-Chen Miao, Victoria Blackmon, Wei-Wei Zhu +41

We report the radio observations of the eclipsing black widow pulsar J1720-0534, a 3.26 ms pulsar in orbit with a low mass companion of mass 0.029 to 0.034 M. We obtain t…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 9 cited

Galactic Interstellar Scintillation Observed from Four Globular Cluster Pulsars by FAST

Dandan Zhang, Zhenzhao Tao, Mao Yuan +9

We report detections of scintillation arcs for pulsars in globular clusters M5, M13 and M15 for the first time using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 216 cited

The Parkes Pulsar Timing Array Third Data Release

Andrew Zic, Daniel J. Reardon, Agastya Kapur +31

We present the third data release from the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array (PPTA) project. The release contains observations of 32 pulsars obtained using the 64-m Parkes "Murriyang" rad…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 17 cited

Radio detection of an elusive millisecond pulsar in the Globular Cluster NGC 6397

Lei Zhang, Alessandro Ridolfi, Harsha Blumer +32

We report the discovery of a new 5.78 ms-period millisecond pulsar (MSP), PSR J1740-5340B (NGC 6397B), in an eclipsing binary system discovered with the Parkes radio telescope (now…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 144 cited

Frequency-dependent polarization of repeating fast radio bursts-implications for their origin

Yi Feng, Di Li, Yuan-Pei Yang +23

The polarization of fast radio bursts (FRBs), bright astronomical transients, contains crucial information about their environments. We report polarization measurements of five rep…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 121 cited

Magnetic field reversal in the turbulent environment around a repeating fast radio burst

Reshma Anna-Thomas, Liam Connor, Shi Dai +27

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are brief, intense flashes of radio waves from unidentified extragalactic sources. Polarized FRBs originate in highly magnetized environments. We report ob…

hep-ph2021★ 35 cited

High-precision search for dark photon dark matter with the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array

Xiao Xue, Zi-Qing Xia, Xingjiang Zhu +20

The nature of dark matter remains obscure in spite of decades of experimental efforts. The mass of dark matter candidates can span a wide range, and its coupling with the Standard…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 17 cited

A single pulse study of PSR J1022+1001

Yi Feng, George Hobbs, Di Li +11

Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), we have recorded 10^5 single pulses from PSR J1022+1001. We studied the polarization properties, their energ…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 7 cited

Wideband Monitoring Observations of PSR J1803-3002A in the Globular Cluster NGC 6522

Lei Zhang, Richard N. Manchester, Andrew D. Cameron +10

We report the first wideband monitoring observations of PSR J1803-3002A, a relatively bright millisecond pulsar in the globular cluster NGC 6522 with a spin period of 7.1 ms and no…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 12 cited

The two emission states of PSR B1534+12

S. Q. Wang, G. Hobbs, J. B. Wang +10

We have observed PSR~B1534+12 (J1537+1155), a pulsar with a neutron star companion, using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). We found that this pulsa…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 74 cited

Precision orbital dynamics from interstellar scintillation arcs for PSR J0437-4715

Daniel J. Reardon, William A. Coles, Matthew Bailes +17

Intensity scintillations of radio pulsars are known to originate from interference between waves scattered by the electron density irregularities of interstellar plasma, often lead…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 16 cited

Radio observations of two intermittent pulsars: PSRs J1832+0029 and J1841-0500

S. Q. Wang, J. B. Wang, G. Hobbs +8

We present long-term observations of two intermittent pulsars, PSRs~J1832+0029 and J18410500 using the Parkes 64\,m radio telescope. The radio emission for these pulsars switche…