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

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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

HAWC J0630+186 Could Not Be Powered by PSR J0630+19

Bojun Wang, Xiaohong Cui, Jiguang Lu +2

3HWC J0630+186 is one of the very-high-energy gamma-ray sources in the third High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) catalog, its origin and source are, however, not clearly identifie…

astro-ph.SR2026

A compact object with a K type star companion in the solar neighborhood: a wide post common envelope binary with a white dwarf candidate

Jie Lin, Hailiang Chen, Bojun Wang +3

Post-common envelope binaries (PCEBs) consisting of a white dwarf (WD) plus a main-sequence (MS) star can constrain current prescriptions of common envelope evolution (CEE) and cal…

astro-ph.HE2025

The magnetar model's energy crisis for a prolific repeating fast radio burst source

Jun-Shuo Zhang, Tian-Cong Wang, Pei Wang +61

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are widely considered to originate from magnetars that power the explosion through releasing magnetic energy. Active repeating FRBs have been seen to produ…

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★ 1 cited

Investigating FRB 20240114A with FAST: Morphological Classification and Drifting Rate Measurements in a Burst-Cluster Framework

Long-Xuan Zhang, Shiyan Tian, Junyi Shen +59

This study investigates the morphological classification and drifting rate measurement of the repeating fast radio burst (FRB) source FRB 20240114A using the Five-hundred-meter Ape…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 4 cited

A comprehensive search for Long and Short Periodic Features from an Extremely Active Cycle of FRB 20240114A

Dengke Zhou, Pei Wang, Jianhua Fang +56

Possible periodic features in fast radio bursts (FRBs) may provide insights into their astrophysical origins. Using extensive observations from the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Sphe…

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

The flat tail in the burst energy distribution of FRB 20240114A

Yu-Xiang Huang, Jun-Shuo Zhang, Heng Xu +19

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are enigmatic millisecond-duration radio transients of extra-galactic origin, whose underlying mechanisms and progenitors remain poorly understood. FRBs ar…

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★ 1 cited

Radio pulse search from Aql X-1

Long Peng, Zhaosheng Li, Yuanyue Pan +5

We present 12 observations of the accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar Aql X-1, taken from August 2022 to October 2023 using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope…

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★ 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.HE2024★ 1 cited

Scintillation velocity and arc observations of FRB 20201124A

Ziwei Wu, Weiwei Zhu, Bing Zhang +18

We present the scintillation velocity measurements of FRB~20201124A from the FAST observations, which reveal an annual variation. This annual variation is further supported by chan…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 2 cited

The discovery of three pulsars in the globular cluster M15 with the FAST

Yuxiao Wu, Zhichen Pan, Lei Qian +17

We present the discovery of three pulsars in the Globular Cluster (GC) M15 (NGC 7078) by the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). PSR J2129+1210J (M15J) is…

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★ 16 cited

Scintillation Arc from FRB 20220912A

Zi-Wei Wu, Robert A. Main, Wei-Wei Zhu +21

We present the interstellar scintillation analysis of fast radio burst (FRB) 20220912A during its extremely active episode in 2022 using data from the Five-hundred-meter Aperture S…

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★ 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…