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20192025
most citedSearching for the nano-Hertz stochastic gravitational wave background with the Chinese Pulsar Timing Array Data Release I

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28 papers

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.HE2025★ 6 cited

The Chinese Pulsar Timing Array data release I. Single pulsar noise analysis

Siyuan Chen, Heng Xu, Yanjun Guo +23

The Chinese Pulsar Timing Array (CPTA) has collected observations from 57 millisecond pulsars using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) for close to th…

astro-ph.HE2025

Periodic variation of magnetoionic environment of a fast radio burst source

Jiangwei Xu, Heng Xu, Yanjun Guo +8

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are luminous, dispersed millisecond-duration radio bursts whose origin is poorly known. Recent observations suggest that some FRBs may reside in binary sys…

astro-ph.HE2025

Polarization Position Angle Swing and the Rotating Vector Model of Repeating Fast Radio Bursts

Xiaohui Liu, Heng Xu, Jiarui Niu +23

Fast radio bursts (FRBs), typically highly polarized, usually have a nearly constant polarization position angle (PA) during each burst. Some bursts show significant PA variations,…

astro-ph.HE2025

Chinese Pulsar Timing Array upper limits on microhertz gravitational waves from supermassive black-hole binaries using PSR J1713+0747 FAST data

R. Nicolas Caballero, Heng Xu, Kejia Lee +6

We derive the gravitational-wave (GW) strain upper limits from resolvable supermassive black-hole binaries using the data from the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Teles…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 10 cited

The Chinese pulsar timing array data release I. Polarimetry for 56 millisecond pulsars

Jiangwei Xu, Jinchen Jiang, Heng Xu +27

We present polarization pulse profiles for 56 millisecond pulsars (MSPs) monitored by the Chinese Pulsar Timing Array (CPTA) collaboration using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Sph…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 7 cited

Rapid Rotation of Polarization Orientations in PSR B1919+21's Single Pulses: Implications On Pulsar's Magnetospheric Dynamics

Shunshun Cao, Jinchen Jiang, Jaroslaw Dyks +5

We analyze and model rapid rotations of polarization orientations in PSR B1919+21's single pulses based on Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope observation data. I…

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

An Extreme Radio Fluctuation of Pulsar B192910

Zhengli Wang, Shunshun Cao, Jiguang Lu +7

We report the detection of an extreme flux decrease accompanied by clear dispersion measure (DM) and rotation measure (RM) variations for pulsar B1929+10 during the 110-minute radi…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 23 cited

Ninety percent circular polarization detected in a repeating fast radio burst

J. C. Jiang, J. W. Xu, J. R. Niu +34

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are extra-galactic sources with unknown physical mechanisms. They emit millisecond-duration radio pulses with isotropic equivalent energy of $10^{36}\sim10…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 11 cited

PSR B0943+10: Mode Switch, Polar Cap Geometry, and Orthogonally Polarized Radiation

Shunshun Cao, Jinchen Jiang, Jaroslaw Dyks +10

As one of the paradigm examples to probe into pulsar magnetospheric dynamics, PSR B0943+10 (J0946+0951) manifests representatively, showing mode switch, orthogonal polarization and…

astro-ph.HE2023

X-ray hardening preceding the onset of SGR 1935+2154's radio pulsar phase

Pei Wang, Jian Li, Long Ji +32

Magnetars are neutron stars with extremely strong magnetic fields, frequently powering high-energy activity in X-rays. Pulsed radio emission following some X-ray outbursts have bee…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 9 cited

Radio Pulsar B095008: Radiation in Magnetosphere and Sparks above Surface

Zhengli Wang, Jiguang Lu, Jinchen Jiang +6

We observed the nearby 100-duty-cycle radio pulsar B0950+08 using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). We obtained the polarization profile for its…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 70 cited

A radio pulsar phase from SGR J1935+2154 provides clues to the magnetar FRB mechanism

Weiwei Zhu, Heng Xu, Dejiang Zhou +34

The megajansky radio burst, FRB 20200428, and other bright radio bursts detected from the Galactic source SGR J1935+2154 suggest that magnetars can make fast radio bursts (FRBs), b…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 1.2k cited

Searching for the nano-Hertz stochastic gravitational wave background with the Chinese Pulsar Timing Array Data Release I

Heng Xu, Siyuan Chen, Yanjun Guo +24

Observing and timing a group of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) with high rotational stability enables the direct detection of gravitational waves (GWs). The GW signals can be identifie…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 33 cited

Spectropolarimetric variability in the repeating fast radio burst source FRB 20180301A

Pravir Kumar, Rui Luo, Danny C. Price +9

As the sample size of repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) has grown, an increasing diversity of phenomenology has emerged. Through long-term multi-epoch studies of repeating FRBs, i…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 2 cited

Atlas of dynamic spectra of fast radio burst FRB 20201124A

Bo-Jun Wang, Heng Xu, Jin-Chen Jiang +64

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are highly dispersed millisecond-duration radio bursts, of which the physical origin is still not fully understood. FRB 20201124A is one of the most active…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 30 cited

Polarisation of magnetospheric curvature radiation in repeating fast radio bursts

Wei-Yang Wang, Jin-Chen Jiang, Kejia Lee +2

Fast radio busts (FRBs) can exhibit a wide variety of polarisation properties, not only between sources but also from burst to burst for a same one. In this work, we revisit the po…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 82 cited

FAST observations of an extremely active episode of FRB 20201124A: II. Energy Distribution

Yong-Kun Zhang, Pei Wang, Yi Feng +17

We report the properties of more than 800 bursts detected from the repeating fast radio burst (FRB) source FRB 20201124A with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telesc…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 56 cited

FAST observations of an extremely active episode of FRB 20201124A: IV. Spin Period Search

Jia-Rui Niu, Wei-Wei Zhu, Bing Zhang +20

We report the properties of more than 800 bursts detected from the repeating fast radio burst (FRB) source FRB 20201124A with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio telesc…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 58 cited

FAST observations of an extremely active episode of FRB 20201124A: III. Polarimetry

Jin-Chen Jiang, Wei-Yang Wang, Heng Xu +26

As the third paper in the multiple-part series, we report the statistical properties of radio bursts detected from the repeating fast radio burst (FRB) source FRB 20201124A with th…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 21 cited

An X-Ray-dim "Isolated'' Neutron Star in a Binary?

Jie Lin, Chunqian Li, Weiyang Wang +13

We report the discovery of a dark companion to 2MASS J15274848+3536572 with an orbital period of 6.14 hr. Combining the radial velocity from LAMOST observations and modelling of th…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 12 cited

The radio signal of PSR B0950+08 is detected over the whole pulse phase

Zhengli Wang, Jiguang Lu, Jinchen Jiang +4

Pulsars are the "lighthouses" in the universe. Periodic pulses with the duty-cycle ~10% are detected when the radio beam of the rotating pulsar sweeps across the telescope. In this…

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…