Finding pulsars in binaries is important for measurements of the masses of neutron stars(NSs),for tests of gravity theories,and for studies of star evolution.We are carrying out the Galactic Plane Pulsar Snapshot surv...Finding pulsars in binaries is important for measurements of the masses of neutron stars(NSs),for tests of gravity theories,and for studies of star evolution.We are carrying out the Galactic Plane Pulsar Snapshot survey(GPPS)by using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope(FAST).Here we present the Keplerian parameters for 116 newly discovered pulsars in the FAST GPPS survey and obtain timing solutions for 29 pulsars.Companions of these pulsars are He white dwarfs(WDs),CO/ONe WDs,NSs,main sequence stars and ultra light objects or even planets.Our observations uncover eclipses of eight binary systems.The optical counterpart for the companion of PSR J1908+1036 is identified.The Post-Keplerian parameter w for the double NS systems PSR J0528+3529 and J1844-0128 have been measured,with which the total masses of the binary systems are determined.展开更多
Binary millisecond pulsars with a massive white dwarf(WD)companion are intermediate-mass binary pulsars(IMBPs).They are formed via the Case BB Roche-lobe overflow evolution channel if they are in compact orbits with a...Binary millisecond pulsars with a massive white dwarf(WD)companion are intermediate-mass binary pulsars(IMBPs).They are formed via the Case BB Roche-lobe overflow evolution channel if they are in compact orbits with an orbital period of less than 1 day.They are fairly rare in the known pulsar population;only five such IMBPs have been discovered before,and one of them is in a globular cluster.Here we report six IMBPs in compact orbits:PSRs J0416+5201,J0520+3722,J1919+1341,J1943+2210,J1947+2304 and J2023+2853,discovered during the Galactic Plane Pulsar Snapshot survey by using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope,doubling the number of such IMBPs due to the high survey sensitivity in the short survey time of 5 minutes.Follow-up timing observations show that they all have either a CO WD or an ONeMg WD companion with a mass greater than about 0.8M_(⊙)in a very circular orbit with an eccentricity in the order of10^(−5).PSR J0416+5201 should be an ONeMg WD companion with a remarkable minimum mass of 1.28M_(⊙).These massive WD companions lead to a detectable Shapiro delay for PSRs J0416+5201,J0520+3722,J1943+2210,and J2023+2853,indicating that their orbits are highly inclined.From the measurement of the Shapiro delay,the pulsar mass of J1943+2210 was constrained to be 1.84^(+0.11)_(-0.09)M_(⊙),and that of PSR J2023+2853 to be 1.28^(+0.06)_(-0.05)M_(⊙).展开更多
Magnetars are slowly rotating,highly magnetized young neutron stars that can show transient radio phenomena for radio pulses and fast radio bursts.We conducted radio observations from two magnetars SGR J1935+2154 and ...Magnetars are slowly rotating,highly magnetized young neutron stars that can show transient radio phenomena for radio pulses and fast radio bursts.We conducted radio observations from two magnetars SGR J1935+2154 and 3XMM J185246.6+003317 and a high-magnetic field pulsar PSR J1846-0258 using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope(FAST).We performed single pulse and periodicity searches and did not detect radio signals from them.From the piggyback data recorded by other FAST telescope beams when we observed the magnetar SGR 1935+2154,we serendipitously discovered a new radio pulsar,PSR J1935+2200.We carried out the follow-up observations and obtained the timing solution based on these new observations and the archive FAST data.PSR J1935+2200 is an isolated old pulsar,with a spin period of 0.91 s,a spin-period derivative of 9.19×10^(−15)s s^(−1),and a characteristic age of 1.57 Myr.It is a weak pulsar with a flux density of 9.8μJy at 1.25 GHz.Discovery of a new pulsar from the long FAST observations of 30 minutes implies that there may be more weak older pulsars in the Galactic disk to be discovered.展开更多
The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope(FAST)is the most sensitive telescope at the L-band(1.0-1.5 GHz)and has been used to carry out the FAST Galactic Plane Pulsar Snapshot(GPPS)survey in the last 5...The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope(FAST)is the most sensitive telescope at the L-band(1.0-1.5 GHz)and has been used to carry out the FAST Galactic Plane Pulsar Snapshot(GPPS)survey in the last 5 yr.Up to now,the survey has covered one-fourth of the planned areas within±10o from the Galactic plane visible by FAST,and discovered 751 pulsars.After the first publication of the discovery of 201 pulsars and one rotating radio transient(RRAT)in 2021 and 76 RRATs in 2023,here we report the discovery of 473 new pulsars from the FAST GPPS survey,including 137 new millisecond pulsars and 30 new RRATs.We find 34 millisecond pulsars discovered by the GPPS survey which can be timed with a precision better than 3μs by using FAST 15 minute observations and can be used for pulsar timing arrays.The GPPS survey has discovered eight pulsars with periods greater than 10 s including one with 29.77 s.The integrated profiles of pulsars and individual pulses of RRATs are presented.During the FAST GPPS survey,we also detected previously known pulsars and updated parameters for 52 pulsars.In addition,we discovered two fast radio bursts plus one probable case with high dispersion measures indicating their extragalactic origin.展开更多
We report the properties of more than 600 bursts(including cluster-bursts)detected from the repeating fast radio burst(FRB)source FRB 20201124A with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope during an ...We report the properties of more than 600 bursts(including cluster-bursts)detected from the repeating fast radio burst(FRB)source FRB 20201124A with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope during an extremely active episode on UTC 2021 September 25–28,in a series of four papers.The observations were carried out in the band of 1.0–1.5 GHz by using the center beam of the L-band 19-beam receiver.We monitored the source in sixteen1 hr sessions and one 3 hr session spanning 23 days.All the bursts were detected during the first four days.In this first paper of the series,we perform a detailed morphological study of 624 bursts using the two-dimensional frequencytime“waterfall”plots,with a burst(or cluster-burst)defined as an emission episode during which the adjacent emission peaks have a separation shorter than 400 ms.The duration of a burst is therefore always longer than 1 ms,with the longest up to more than 120 ms.The emission spectra of the sub-bursts are typically narrow within the observing band with a characteristic width of~277 MHz.The center frequency distribution has a dominant peak at about 1091.9 MHz and a secondary weak peak around 1327.9 MHz.Most bursts show a frequencydownwarddrifting pattern.Based on the drifting patterns,we classify the bursts into five main categories:downward drifting(263)bursts,upward drifting(3)bursts,complex(203),no drifting(35)bursts,and no evidence for drifting(121)bursts.Subtypes are introduced based on the emission frequency range in the band(low,middle,high and wide)as well as the number of components in one burst(1,2,or multiple).We measured a varying scintillation bandwidth from about 0.5 MHz at 1.0 GHz to 1.4 MHz at 1.5 GHz with a spectral index of 3.0.展开更多
Radio astronomy observations are frequently impacted by radio frequency interference(RFI).We propose a novel method,named 2σCRF,for cleaning RFI in the folded data of pulsar observations,utilizing a Bayesian-based mo...Radio astronomy observations are frequently impacted by radio frequency interference(RFI).We propose a novel method,named 2σCRF,for cleaning RFI in the folded data of pulsar observations,utilizing a Bayesian-based model called conditional random fields(CRFs).This algorithm minimizes the“energy”of every pixel given an initial label.The standard deviations(i.e.,rms values)of the folded pulsar data are utilized as pixels for all subintegrations and channels.Non-RFI data without obvious interference is treated as“background noise,”while RFI-affected data have different classes due to their exceptional rms values.This initial labeling can be automated and is adaptive to the actual data.The CRF algorithm optimizes the label category for each pixel of the image with the prior initial labels.We demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed method on pulsar folded data obtained from Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope observations.It can effectively recognize and tag various categories of RFIs,including broadband or narrowband,constant or instantaneous,and even weak RFIs that are unrecognizable in some pixels but picked out based on their neighborhoods.The results are comparable to those obtained via manual labeling but without the need for human intervention,saving time and effort.展开更多
基金supported by the National SKA program of China(No.2020SKA0120200)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.12133004)+1 种基金the Chinese Academy of Science(No.JZHKYPT-2021-06)and the National Key R&D Program of China(No.2021YFA1600401 and 2021YFA1600400)supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.11988101,12133004 and 11833009).
文摘Finding pulsars in binaries is important for measurements of the masses of neutron stars(NSs),for tests of gravity theories,and for studies of star evolution.We are carrying out the Galactic Plane Pulsar Snapshot survey(GPPS)by using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope(FAST).Here we present the Keplerian parameters for 116 newly discovered pulsars in the FAST GPPS survey and obtain timing solutions for 29 pulsars.Companions of these pulsars are He white dwarfs(WDs),CO/ONe WDs,NSs,main sequence stars and ultra light objects or even planets.Our observations uncover eclipses of eight binary systems.The optical counterpart for the companion of PSR J1908+1036 is identified.The Post-Keplerian parameter w for the double NS systems PSR J0528+3529 and J1844-0128 have been measured,with which the total masses of the binary systems are determined.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC,Grant Nos.11988101,12133004 and 11833009)the Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(grant No.QYZDJ-SSW-SLH021 and JZHKYPT-2021-06).
文摘Binary millisecond pulsars with a massive white dwarf(WD)companion are intermediate-mass binary pulsars(IMBPs).They are formed via the Case BB Roche-lobe overflow evolution channel if they are in compact orbits with an orbital period of less than 1 day.They are fairly rare in the known pulsar population;only five such IMBPs have been discovered before,and one of them is in a globular cluster.Here we report six IMBPs in compact orbits:PSRs J0416+5201,J0520+3722,J1919+1341,J1943+2210,J1947+2304 and J2023+2853,discovered during the Galactic Plane Pulsar Snapshot survey by using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope,doubling the number of such IMBPs due to the high survey sensitivity in the short survey time of 5 minutes.Follow-up timing observations show that they all have either a CO WD or an ONeMg WD companion with a mass greater than about 0.8M_(⊙)in a very circular orbit with an eccentricity in the order of10^(−5).PSR J0416+5201 should be an ONeMg WD companion with a remarkable minimum mass of 1.28M_(⊙).These massive WD companions lead to a detectable Shapiro delay for PSRs J0416+5201,J0520+3722,J1943+2210,and J2023+2853,indicating that their orbits are highly inclined.From the measurement of the Shapiro delay,the pulsar mass of J1943+2210 was constrained to be 1.84^(+0.11)_(-0.09)M_(⊙),and that of PSR J2023+2853 to be 1.28^(+0.06)_(-0.05)M_(⊙).
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China:Nos.11988101,and 11833009also the National SKA Program of China 2020SKA0120100.
文摘Magnetars are slowly rotating,highly magnetized young neutron stars that can show transient radio phenomena for radio pulses and fast radio bursts.We conducted radio observations from two magnetars SGR J1935+2154 and 3XMM J185246.6+003317 and a high-magnetic field pulsar PSR J1846-0258 using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope(FAST).We performed single pulse and periodicity searches and did not detect radio signals from them.From the piggyback data recorded by other FAST telescope beams when we observed the magnetar SGR 1935+2154,we serendipitously discovered a new radio pulsar,PSR J1935+2200.We carried out the follow-up observations and obtained the timing solution based on these new observations and the archive FAST data.PSR J1935+2200 is an isolated old pulsar,with a spin period of 0.91 s,a spin-period derivative of 9.19×10^(−15)s s^(−1),and a characteristic age of 1.57 Myr.It is a weak pulsar with a flux density of 9.8μJy at 1.25 GHz.Discovery of a new pulsar from the long FAST observations of 30 minutes implies that there may be more weak older pulsars in the Galactic disk to be discovered.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC,Grant Nos.11988101,12133004 and 11833009)also the National SKA Program of China 2020SKA0120100The pulsar searching team is specially supported by the Chinese Academy of Sciences via the project JZHKYPT-2021-06.
文摘The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope(FAST)is the most sensitive telescope at the L-band(1.0-1.5 GHz)and has been used to carry out the FAST Galactic Plane Pulsar Snapshot(GPPS)survey in the last 5 yr.Up to now,the survey has covered one-fourth of the planned areas within±10o from the Galactic plane visible by FAST,and discovered 751 pulsars.After the first publication of the discovery of 201 pulsars and one rotating radio transient(RRAT)in 2021 and 76 RRATs in 2023,here we report the discovery of 473 new pulsars from the FAST GPPS survey,including 137 new millisecond pulsars and 30 new RRATs.We find 34 millisecond pulsars discovered by the GPPS survey which can be timed with a precision better than 3μs by using FAST 15 minute observations and can be used for pulsar timing arrays.The GPPS survey has discovered eight pulsars with periods greater than 10 s including one with 29.77 s.The integrated profiles of pulsars and individual pulses of RRATs are presented.During the FAST GPPS survey,we also detected previously known pulsars and updated parameters for 52 pulsars.In addition,we discovered two fast radio bursts plus one probable case with high dispersion measures indicating their extragalactic origin.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC,Nos.11988101 and 11833009)the Key Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.QYZDJ-SSWSLH021)+6 种基金supported by the Cultivation Project for the FAST scientific Payoff and Research Achievement of CAMS-CASsupported by the Key Research Project of Zhejiang Lab no.2021PE0AC0supported by the National SKA Program of China(2020SKA0120100)the National Key R&D Program of China(2017YFA0402602)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.12041303)the CAS-MPG LEGACY projectfunding from the MaxPlanck Partner Group。
文摘We report the properties of more than 600 bursts(including cluster-bursts)detected from the repeating fast radio burst(FRB)source FRB 20201124A with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope during an extremely active episode on UTC 2021 September 25–28,in a series of four papers.The observations were carried out in the band of 1.0–1.5 GHz by using the center beam of the L-band 19-beam receiver.We monitored the source in sixteen1 hr sessions and one 3 hr session spanning 23 days.All the bursts were detected during the first four days.In this first paper of the series,we perform a detailed morphological study of 624 bursts using the two-dimensional frequencytime“waterfall”plots,with a burst(or cluster-burst)defined as an emission episode during which the adjacent emission peaks have a separation shorter than 400 ms.The duration of a burst is therefore always longer than 1 ms,with the longest up to more than 120 ms.The emission spectra of the sub-bursts are typically narrow within the observing band with a characteristic width of~277 MHz.The center frequency distribution has a dominant peak at about 1091.9 MHz and a secondary weak peak around 1327.9 MHz.Most bursts show a frequencydownwarddrifting pattern.Based on the drifting patterns,we classify the bursts into five main categories:downward drifting(263)bursts,upward drifting(3)bursts,complex(203),no drifting(35)bursts,and no evidence for drifting(121)bursts.Subtypes are introduced based on the emission frequency range in the band(low,middle,high and wide)as well as the number of components in one burst(1,2,or multiple).We measured a varying scintillation bandwidth from about 0.5 MHz at 1.0 GHz to 1.4 MHz at 1.5 GHz with a spectral index of 3.0.
基金the GPPS survey project,as one of five key projects of FAST,a Chinese national mega-science facility,operated by the National Astronomical Observatories,Chinese Academy of Sciencessupported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC,Nos.11988101 and 11833009)the Key Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(grant No.QYZDJ-SSW-SLH021)。
文摘Radio astronomy observations are frequently impacted by radio frequency interference(RFI).We propose a novel method,named 2σCRF,for cleaning RFI in the folded data of pulsar observations,utilizing a Bayesian-based model called conditional random fields(CRFs).This algorithm minimizes the“energy”of every pixel given an initial label.The standard deviations(i.e.,rms values)of the folded pulsar data are utilized as pixels for all subintegrations and channels.Non-RFI data without obvious interference is treated as“background noise,”while RFI-affected data have different classes due to their exceptional rms values.This initial labeling can be automated and is adaptive to the actual data.The CRF algorithm optimizes the label category for each pixel of the image with the prior initial labels.We demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed method on pulsar folded data obtained from Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope observations.It can effectively recognize and tag various categories of RFIs,including broadband or narrowband,constant or instantaneous,and even weak RFIs that are unrecognizable in some pixels but picked out based on their neighborhoods.The results are comparable to those obtained via manual labeling but without the need for human intervention,saving time and effort.
