We identify an S-shaped main-jet axis in the Vela core-collapse supernova remnant(CCSNR)that we attribute to a pair of precessing jets,one of the tens of pairs of jets that exploded the progenitor of Vela according to...We identify an S-shaped main-jet axis in the Vela core-collapse supernova remnant(CCSNR)that we attribute to a pair of precessing jets,one of the tens of pairs of jets that exploded the progenitor of Vela according to the jittering jets explosion mechanism(JJEM).A main-jet axis is a symmetry axis across the CCSNR and through the center.We identify the S-shaped main-jet axis by the high abundance of ejecta elements,oxygen,neon,and magnesium.We bring the number of identified pairs of clumps and ears in Vela to seven,two pairs shaped by the pair of precessing jets that formed the main-jet axis.The pairs and the main-jet axis form the point-symmetric wind-rose structure of Vela.The other five pairs of clumps/ears do not have signatures near the center,only on two opposite sides of the CCSNR.We discuss different possible jet-less shaping mechanisms to form such a point-symmetric morphology and dismiss these processes because they cannot explain the point-symmetric morphology of Vela,the S-shaped high ejecta abundance pattern,and the enormous energy required to shape the S-shaped structure.Our findings strongly support the JJEM and further severely challenge the neutrino-driven explosion mechanism.展开更多
This paper yields a new exact solution for dense stellar objects by employing the Einstein-Maxwell system of differential equations.The established model comprises three interior layers with distinguishable equations ...This paper yields a new exact solution for dense stellar objects by employing the Einstein-Maxwell system of differential equations.The established model comprises three interior layers with distinguishable equations of state(EoSs):the polytropic EoS at the core layer,the quadratic EoS at the intermediate layer and the modified Van der Waals EoS at the envelope layer.The physical features indicate that the matter variables,metric functions and other physical conditions are viable with dense astrophysical objects.Excitingly,this model is an extension solution of the two-layered model generated by Sunzu and Lighuda.The layers are matched gently across the junctions with the care of the Reissner-Nordström exterior spacetime.Utilizing our model,star masses and radii compatible with observations and satisfactorily known objects are generated.The findings from this paper may be useful to describes purported strange stars such as SAX J1808.4-3658 and binary stars such as Vela X-1.展开更多
The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope(FAST)is living up to its promise as one of the world's premiere pulsar finding instruments.At the center of FAST's many significant pulsar discoveries(which ...The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope(FAST)is living up to its promise as one of the world's premiere pulsar finding instruments.At the center of FAST's many significant pulsar discoveries(which in total number 1000 from all projects to date)is the announcement by Han et al.(2025)of a further 473 pulsars.The new discoveries are the latest installment from the FAST Galactic Plane Snapshot Survey(GPPS),bringing its total to 751 pulsars.Full details of the design and observational setup of the FAST GPPS can be found in Han et al.(2021).展开更多
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
We developed a pulsar search pipeline based on PulsaR Exploration and Search TOolkit(PRESTO).This pipeline simply runs dedispersion,Fast Fourier Transform(FFT)and acceleration search in process-level parallel to short...We developed a pulsar search pipeline based on PulsaR Exploration and Search TOolkit(PRESTO).This pipeline simply runs dedispersion,Fast Fourier Transform(FFT)and acceleration search in process-level parallel to shorten the processing time.With two parallel strategies,the pipeline can highly shorten the processing time in both normal searches and acceleration searches.This pipeline was first tested with Parkes Multibeam Pulsar Survery(PMPS)data and discovered two new faint pulsars.Then,it was successfully applied in processing the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope(FAST)drift scan data with tens of new pulsar discoveries up to now.The pipeline is only CPU-based and can be easily and quickly deployed in computing nodes for testing purposes or data processing.展开更多
The increasing radio frequency interference(RFI)is a well-recognized problem in radio astronomy research.Pulsars and Fast Radio Bursts(FRBs)are high-priority science targets of the ongoing Commercial Radio Astronomy F...The increasing radio frequency interference(RFI)is a well-recognized problem in radio astronomy research.Pulsars and Fast Radio Bursts(FRBs)are high-priority science targets of the ongoing Commercial Radio Astronomy FAST Survey(CRAFTS).To improve the quality of RFI removal in searches of pulsars and FRBs based on CRAFTS multi-beam data,we here propose an intuitive but powerful RFI mitigation pipeline(CCF-ST).The“CCF-ST”is a spatial filter constructed by signal cross-correlation function(CCF)and Sum-Threshold(ST)algorithm.The RFI marking result is saved in a“mask”file,a binary format for RFI masks in PRESTO.Three known pulsars,PSR B0525-21,PSR B0621-04,and PSR J0943+2252 from CRAFTS L-band 19 beams data are used for evaluation of the performance of CCF-ST in comparison with other methods,such as PRESTO’s“rfifind”,ArPLS-ST and ArPLS-SF.The result shows that CCF-ST can reduce effective data loss rate and improves the detected signal-to-noise ratio of the pulsations by~26%and~18%respectively compared with PRESTO’s“rfifind”and ArPLS-ST.The CCF-ST also has the advantage of low computational cost,e.g.,reducing the time consumption by~40%and memory consumption by~90%compared with ArPLS-SF.We expect that the new RFI mitigation and analysis toolkit(CCF-ST)demonstrated in this paper can be applied to CRAFTS and other multi-beam telescope observations to improve the data quality and efficiency of pulsar and FRB searches.展开更多
The glitch size,△ν/ν, inter-glitch time interval, ti, and frequency of glitches in pulsars are key parameters in discussing glitch phenomena. In this paper, the glitch sizes and inter-glitch time intervals are stat...The glitch size,△ν/ν, inter-glitch time interval, ti, and frequency of glitches in pulsars are key parameters in discussing glitch phenomena. In this paper, the glitch sizes and inter-glitch time intervals are statistically analyzed in a sample of 168 pulsars with a total of 483 glitches. The glitches are broadly divided into two groups. Those with △ν/ν< 10^-7 are regarded as small size glitches, while those with△ν/ν≥ 10^-7 are considered as relatively large size glitches. In the ensemble of glitches, the distribution of△ν/ν is seen to be bimodal as usual. The distribution of inter-glitch time intervals is unimodal and the interglitch time intervals between small and large size glitches are not significantly different from each other.This observation shows that inter-glitch time intervals are size independent. In addition, the distribution of the ratio △ν/ν: tiin both small and large size glitches has the same pattern. This observation suggests that a parameter which depends on time, which could be the spin-down rate of a pulsar, plays a similar role in the processes that regulate both small and large size glitches. Equally, this could be an indication that a single physical mechanism, which could produce varying glitch sizes at similar time-intervals, could be responsible for both classes of glitch sizes.展开更多
Average pulse profiles of pulsar signals are analyzed using the bispectrum technique. The result shows that there are nonlinear phase couplings between the two frequency axes of the bispectrum charts, which indicate n...Average pulse profiles of pulsar signals are analyzed using the bispectrum technique. The result shows that there are nonlinear phase couplings between the two frequency axes of the bispectrum charts, which indicate nonlinear factors in the generation and propagation of pulsar signals. Bispectra can be used as feature vectors of pulsar signals because of their being translation invariant. A one-dimension selected line spectrum algorithm for extracting pulsar signal characteristic is proposed. Compared with selected bispectra, the proposed selected line spectra have the maximum interclass separability measurements from the point of view of the whole one-dimension feature vector. Recognition experiments on several pulsar signals received at several frequency bands are carried out. The result shows that the selected line spectrum algorithm is suitable for extracting pulsar signal characteristics and has a good classification performance.展开更多
We present a method by using the phase characteristics of radio observation data for pulsar search and candidate identification.The phase characteristics are relations between the pulsar signal and the phase correctio...We present a method by using the phase characteristics of radio observation data for pulsar search and candidate identification.The phase characteristics are relations between the pulsar signal and the phase correction in the frequency-domain,and we regard it as a new search diagnostic characteristic.Based on the phase characteristics,a search method is presented:calculating dispersion measure(DM)—frequency data to select candidate frequencies,and then confirming of candidates by using the broadband characteristics of pulsar signals.Based on this method,we performed a search test on short observation data of M15 and M71,which were observed by Five-hundredmeter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope,and some of the Galactic Plane Pulsar Snapshot survey data.Results show that it can get similar search results to PRESTO(Pulsa R Exploration and Search TOolkit)while having a faster processing speed.展开更多
We present the database of maser sources in H2 O, OH and Si O lines that can be used to identify and study variable stars at evolved stages. Detecting the maser emission in H2 O, OH and Si O molecules toward infrared-...We present the database of maser sources in H2 O, OH and Si O lines that can be used to identify and study variable stars at evolved stages. Detecting the maser emission in H2 O, OH and Si O molecules toward infrared-excess objects is one of the methods for identifing long-period variables(LPVs, including miras and semiregulars), because these stars exhibit maser activity in their circumstellar shells. Our sample contains 1803 known LPV objects. Forty-six percent of these stars(832 objects) manifest maser emission in the line of at least one molecule: H2 O, OH or Si O. We use the database of circumstellar masers in order to search for LPVs which are not included in the General Catalogue of Variable Stars(GCVS). Our database contains 4806 objects(3866 objects without associations in GCVS) with maser detection in at least one molecule. Therefore it is possible to use the database in order to locate and study the large sample of LPV stars. The database can be accessed at http://maserdb.net.展开更多
The Binary star DataBase(BDB, http://bdb.inasan.ru) combines data from catalogs of binary and multiple stars of all observational types. There is a number of ways for variable stars to form or to be a part of binary o...The Binary star DataBase(BDB, http://bdb.inasan.ru) combines data from catalogs of binary and multiple stars of all observational types. There is a number of ways for variable stars to form or to be a part of binary or multiple systems. We describe how such stars are represented in the database.展开更多
I build a toy model in the frame of the jittering jets explosion mechanism(JJEM)of core collapse supernovae that incorporates both the stochastically varying angular momentum component of the material that the newly b...I build a toy model in the frame of the jittering jets explosion mechanism(JJEM)of core collapse supernovae that incorporates both the stochastically varying angular momentum component of the material that the newly born neutron star(NS)accretes and the constant angular momentum component,and show that the JJEM can account for the≃2.5–5M⊙mass gap between NSs and black holes(BHs).The random component of the angular momentum results from pre-collapse core convection fluctuations that are amplified by post-collapse instabilities.The fixed angular momentum component results from pre-collapse core rotation.For slowly rotating pre-collapse cores the stochastic angular momentum fluctuations form intermittent accretion disks(or belts)around the NS with varying angular momentum axes in all directions.The intermittent accretion disk/belt launches jets in all directions that expel the core material in all directions early on,hence leaving an NS remnant.Rapidly rotating pre-collapse cores form an accretion disk with angular momentum axis that is about the same as the pre-collapse core rotation.The NS launches jets along this axis and hence the jets avoid the equatorial plane region.Inflowing core material continues to feed the central object from the equatorial plane increasing the NS mass to form a BH.The narrow transition from slow to rapid pre-collapse core rotation,i.e.,from an efficient to inefficient jet feedback mechanism,accounts for the sparsely populated mass gap.展开更多
I present a scenario by which an accretion flow with alternating angular momentum on to a newly born neutron star in a core collapse supernova(CCSN) efficiently amplifies magnetic fields and by that launches jets.The ...I present a scenario by which an accretion flow with alternating angular momentum on to a newly born neutron star in a core collapse supernova(CCSN) efficiently amplifies magnetic fields and by that launches jets.The accretion flow of a collapsing core on to the newly born neutron star suffers spiral standing accretion shock instability(SASI).This instability leads to a stochastically variable angular momentum of the accreted gas,which in turn forms an accretion flow with alternating directions of the angular momentum,and hence alternating shear,at any given time.I study the shear in this alternating-shear sub-Keplerian inflow in published simulations,and present a new comparison with Keplerian accretion disks.From that comparison I argue that it might be as efficient as Keplerian accretion disks in amplifying magnetic fields by a dynamo.I suggest that although the average specific angular momentum of the accretion flow is small,namely,sub-Keplerian,this alternating-shear accretion flow can launch jets with varying directions,namely,jittering jets.Neutrino heating is an important ingredient in further energizing the jets.The jittering jets locally revive the stalled accretion shock in the momentarily polar directions,and by that they explode the star.I repeat again my call for a paradigm shift from a neutrino-driven explosion of CCSNe to a jet-driven explosion mechanism that is aided by neutrino heating.展开更多
Long period variable(LPV)stars are very promising distance indicators in the infrared bands.We selected asymptotic giant branch(AGB)stars in the Large and Small Magellanic Cloud(LMC and SMC)from the Gaia Data Release ...Long period variable(LPV)stars are very promising distance indicators in the infrared bands.We selected asymptotic giant branch(AGB)stars in the Large and Small Magellanic Cloud(LMC and SMC)from the Gaia Data Release 3 LPV catalog,and classified them into oxygen-rich(O-rich)and carbon-rich(C-rich)AGB stars.Using the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer database,we determined the W1-and W2-band period-luminosity relations(PLRs)for each pulsation-mode sequence of AGB stars.The dispersion of the PLRs of O-rich AGB stars in sequences C'and C is relatively small,around 0.14 mag.The PLRs of LMC and SMC are consistent in each sequence.In the W2 band,the PLR of large-amplitude C-rich AGB stars is steeper than that of small-amplitude C-rich AGB stars,due to their more circumstellar dust.By two methods,we find that some PLR sequences of O-rich AGB stars in the LMC are dependent on metallicity.The coefficients of the metallicity effect areβ=-0.533±0.213 mag dex~1andβ=-0.767±0.158 mag dex~1for sequence C in W1 and W2 bands,respectively.The significance of the metallicity effect in W1 band for the four sequences is 2.2-3.5σ.Both of these imply that distance measurements using O-rich Mira may need to take the metallicity effect into account.展开更多
I estimate the frequencies of gravitational waves from jittering jets that explode core collapse supernovae(CCSNe)to crudely be 5–30 Hz,and with strains that might allow detection of Galactic CCSNe.The jittering jets...I estimate the frequencies of gravitational waves from jittering jets that explode core collapse supernovae(CCSNe)to crudely be 5–30 Hz,and with strains that might allow detection of Galactic CCSNe.The jittering jets explosion mechanism(JJEM)asserts that most CCSNe are exploded by jittering jets that the newly born neutron star(NS)launches within a few seconds.According to the JJEM,instabilities in the accreted gas lead to the formation of intermittent accretion disks that launch the jittering jets.Earlier studies that did not include jets calculated the gravitational frequencies that instabilities around the NS emit to have a peak in the crude frequency range of 100–2000Hz.Based on a recent study,I take the source of the gravitational waves of jittering jets to be the turbulent bubbles(cocoons)that the jets inflate as they interact with the outer layers of the core of the star at thousands of kilometers from the NS.The lower frequencies and larger strains than those of gravitational waves from instabilities in CCSNe allow future,and maybe present,detectors to identify the gravitational wave signals of jittering jets.Detection of gravitational waves from local CCSNe might distinguish between the neutrino-driven explosion mechanism and the JJEM.展开更多
PSR J0742-2822 is known for its quasi-periodic changes in the observed pulse profile and spindown rate.In this paper,we analyzed 13 years of timing data obtained with the Nanshan 25-m radio telescope and the Parkes 64...PSR J0742-2822 is known for its quasi-periodic changes in the observed pulse profile and spindown rate.In this paper,we analyzed 13 years of timing data obtained with the Nanshan 25-m radio telescope and the Parkes 64-m radio telescope.We found that the average values of the spin-down rate((v))of this pulsar changed in four different states.We investigated the correlation between v and W50,and ascertained that the correlation changed in different states.Moreover,not all the changes in states and correlation can be associated with glitch activities.We examined the long term evolution ofγ-ray flux(0.1-300 GeV)and the pulse profiles corresponding to the four different states using Fermi-LAT Pass8(P8 R3)data from 2008 August 5 to 2019 October 1.We did not detect a significant change inγ-ray flux or the pulse profile.Our results suggest that the connection between pulsar rotation and emission is more complex than previously reported for this pulsar.展开更多
We obtained seven spectra of the Be star V423 Aur on 2017 Dec.5 using the LAMOST MediumResolution Spectrograph with exposures from 600 to 1200 seconds.These spectra show the irregular Ha emission line profile variatio...We obtained seven spectra of the Be star V423 Aur on 2017 Dec.5 using the LAMOST MediumResolution Spectrograph with exposures from 600 to 1200 seconds.These spectra show the irregular Ha emission line profile variations(LPVs).In the seven spectra,from the 4 th to 7 th,the left part of Ha profile even shows excess.However,no variation can be seen from the follow-up observation of photometry by 1.26-m telescope and High-Resolution spectra by 2.16-m telescope.According to the High-Resolution spectra,we conclude that it is a B7 V type star with E(B-V)=0.709±0.036 and its vsini is221.8 km s-1.The short-term Ha LPVs could be explained as a result of the transient ejection of matter from rotating disk or shell around V423 Aur.展开更多
Multiple stellar populations(MPs) in most star clusters older than 2 Gyr, as seen by lots of spectroscopic and photometric studies, have led to a significant challenge to the traditional view of star formation. In thi...Multiple stellar populations(MPs) in most star clusters older than 2 Gyr, as seen by lots of spectroscopic and photometric studies, have led to a significant challenge to the traditional view of star formation. In this field, spacebased instruments, in particular the Hubble Space Telescope(HST), have made a breakthrough as they significantly improved the efficiency of detecting MPs in crowded stellar fields by images. The China Space Station Telescope(CSST) and the HST are sensitive to a similar wavelength interval, but the CSST covers a field of view which is about 5–8 times wider than that of HST. One of its instruments, the Multi-Channel Imager(MCI),will have multiple filters covering a wide wavelength range from NUV to NIR, making the CSST a potentially powerful tool for studying MPs in clusters. In this work, we evaluate the efficiency of the designed filters for the MCI/CSST in revealing MPs in different color–magnitude diagrams(CMDs). We find that CMDs made with MCI/CSST photometry in appropriate UV filters are powerful tools to disentangle stellar populations with different abundances of He, C, N, O and Mg. On the contrary, the traditional CMDs are blind to multiple populations in globular clusters(GCs). We show that CSST has the potential of being the spearhead instrument for investigating MPs in GCs in the next decades.展开更多
We utilize the phenomenologically parameterized piecewise polytropic equations of state to study various neutron star properties.We investigate the compliance of these equations of state with several astronomical obse...We utilize the phenomenologically parameterized piecewise polytropic equations of state to study various neutron star properties.We investigate the compliance of these equations of state with several astronomical observations.We also demonstrate that the theoretical estimates of the fractional moment of inertia cannot explain all the pulsar glitches observed.We model the crust as a solid spheroidal shell to calculate the fractional moment of inertia of fast-spinning neutron stars.We also show that the braking index obtained in a simple magnetic dipole radiation model with a varying moment of inertia deviates significantly from the observed data.Future developments in both theory and observations may allow us to use the fractional moment of inertia and braking index as observational constraints for neutron star equation of state.展开更多
Pulsars are believed to be one of the most interesting objects in the universe.The emission mechanism of pulsars is still a conundrum to physicists,as there is no completely acceptable theory that can establish a cons...Pulsars are believed to be one of the most interesting objects in the universe.The emission mechanism of pulsars is still a conundrum to physicists,as there is no completely acceptable theory that can establish a consensus between theory and observation.Pulsars possess a gigantic magnetic field,to the order of 10^(12)Gauss,and generate a very powerful radio beam from the magnetic pole.However,the powerful radio beam is generated by some complicated coherent plasma processes and acceleration in the pulsar magnetosphere.The location of the origin of the radio waves has been predicted to come out exclusively from the polar cap zone,whose boundary is defined by the footprint of the last open field line.However,in this paper,we mainly try to generate the shape of the polar cap structure from an analytical solution and discuss how it gets distorted for different geometrical parameters due to the presence of perturbation such as polar cap current flow.Also,apart from that,we try to emphasize understanding the variation of radio emission height and polarization angle with respect to different geometryrelated parameters as well as with frequency.展开更多
基金A grant from the Pazy Foundation supported this research
文摘We identify an S-shaped main-jet axis in the Vela core-collapse supernova remnant(CCSNR)that we attribute to a pair of precessing jets,one of the tens of pairs of jets that exploded the progenitor of Vela according to the jittering jets explosion mechanism(JJEM).A main-jet axis is a symmetry axis across the CCSNR and through the center.We identify the S-shaped main-jet axis by the high abundance of ejecta elements,oxygen,neon,and magnesium.We bring the number of identified pairs of clumps and ears in Vela to seven,two pairs shaped by the pair of precessing jets that formed the main-jet axis.The pairs and the main-jet axis form the point-symmetric wind-rose structure of Vela.The other five pairs of clumps/ears do not have signatures near the center,only on two opposite sides of the CCSNR.We discuss different possible jet-less shaping mechanisms to form such a point-symmetric morphology and dismiss these processes because they cannot explain the point-symmetric morphology of Vela,the S-shaped high ejecta abundance pattern,and the enormous energy required to shape the S-shaped structure.Our findings strongly support the JJEM and further severely challenge the neutrino-driven explosion mechanism.
文摘This paper yields a new exact solution for dense stellar objects by employing the Einstein-Maxwell system of differential equations.The established model comprises three interior layers with distinguishable equations of state(EoSs):the polytropic EoS at the core layer,the quadratic EoS at the intermediate layer and the modified Van der Waals EoS at the envelope layer.The physical features indicate that the matter variables,metric functions and other physical conditions are viable with dense astrophysical objects.Excitingly,this model is an extension solution of the two-layered model generated by Sunzu and Lighuda.The layers are matched gently across the junctions with the care of the Reissner-Nordström exterior spacetime.Utilizing our model,star masses and radii compatible with observations and satisfactorily known objects are generated.The findings from this paper may be useful to describes purported strange stars such as SAX J1808.4-3658 and binary stars such as Vela X-1.
文摘The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope(FAST)is living up to its promise as one of the world's premiere pulsar finding instruments.At the center of FAST's many significant pulsar discoveries(which in total number 1000 from all projects to date)is the announcement by Han et al.(2025)of a further 473 pulsars.The new discoveries are the latest installment from the FAST Galactic Plane Snapshot Survey(GPPS),bringing its total to 751 pulsars.Full details of the design and observational setup of the FAST GPPS can be found in Han et al.(2021).
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 Key R&D Program of China(2017YFA0402600)State Key DevelopmentProgram for Basic Research(2015CB857100)+4 种基金National Basic Research Program of China(973 program,No.2015CB857101)National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.11703047,11773041,U1631132and U1831131)supported by the CAS“Light of West China”Programby the CAS Key Laboratory of FAST,National Astronomical Observatories,Chinese Academy of Sciencessupported in part by the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of CAS(id.2018075)。
文摘We developed a pulsar search pipeline based on PulsaR Exploration and Search TOolkit(PRESTO).This pipeline simply runs dedispersion,Fast Fourier Transform(FFT)and acceleration search in process-level parallel to shorten the processing time.With two parallel strategies,the pipeline can highly shorten the processing time in both normal searches and acceleration searches.This pipeline was first tested with Parkes Multibeam Pulsar Survery(PMPS)data and discovered two new faint pulsars.Then,it was successfully applied in processing the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope(FAST)drift scan data with tens of new pulsar discoveries up to now.The pipeline is only CPU-based and can be easily and quickly deployed in computing nodes for testing purposes or data processing.
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)under Nos.11988101,U183110134,11703047,11773041,and U1831131support by the Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS(id.2021055)cultivation project for FAST scientific payoff and research achievement of CAMS-CAS。
文摘The increasing radio frequency interference(RFI)is a well-recognized problem in radio astronomy research.Pulsars and Fast Radio Bursts(FRBs)are high-priority science targets of the ongoing Commercial Radio Astronomy FAST Survey(CRAFTS).To improve the quality of RFI removal in searches of pulsars and FRBs based on CRAFTS multi-beam data,we here propose an intuitive but powerful RFI mitigation pipeline(CCF-ST).The“CCF-ST”is a spatial filter constructed by signal cross-correlation function(CCF)and Sum-Threshold(ST)algorithm.The RFI marking result is saved in a“mask”file,a binary format for RFI masks in PRESTO.Three known pulsars,PSR B0525-21,PSR B0621-04,and PSR J0943+2252 from CRAFTS L-band 19 beams data are used for evaluation of the performance of CCF-ST in comparison with other methods,such as PRESTO’s“rfifind”,ArPLS-ST and ArPLS-SF.The result shows that CCF-ST can reduce effective data loss rate and improves the detected signal-to-noise ratio of the pulsations by~26%and~18%respectively compared with PRESTO’s“rfifind”and ArPLS-ST.The CCF-ST also has the advantage of low computational cost,e.g.,reducing the time consumption by~40%and memory consumption by~90%compared with ArPLS-SF.We expect that the new RFI mitigation and analysis toolkit(CCF-ST)demonstrated in this paper can be applied to CRAFTS and other multi-beam telescope observations to improve the data quality and efficiency of pulsar and FRB searches.
文摘The glitch size,△ν/ν, inter-glitch time interval, ti, and frequency of glitches in pulsars are key parameters in discussing glitch phenomena. In this paper, the glitch sizes and inter-glitch time intervals are statistically analyzed in a sample of 168 pulsars with a total of 483 glitches. The glitches are broadly divided into two groups. Those with △ν/ν< 10^-7 are regarded as small size glitches, while those with△ν/ν≥ 10^-7 are considered as relatively large size glitches. In the ensemble of glitches, the distribution of△ν/ν is seen to be bimodal as usual. The distribution of inter-glitch time intervals is unimodal and the interglitch time intervals between small and large size glitches are not significantly different from each other.This observation shows that inter-glitch time intervals are size independent. In addition, the distribution of the ratio △ν/ν: tiin both small and large size glitches has the same pattern. This observation suggests that a parameter which depends on time, which could be the spin-down rate of a pulsar, plays a similar role in the processes that regulate both small and large size glitches. Equally, this could be an indication that a single physical mechanism, which could produce varying glitch sizes at similar time-intervals, could be responsible for both classes of glitch sizes.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
文摘Average pulse profiles of pulsar signals are analyzed using the bispectrum technique. The result shows that there are nonlinear phase couplings between the two frequency axes of the bispectrum charts, which indicate nonlinear factors in the generation and propagation of pulsar signals. Bispectra can be used as feature vectors of pulsar signals because of their being translation invariant. A one-dimension selected line spectrum algorithm for extracting pulsar signal characteristic is proposed. Compared with selected bispectra, the proposed selected line spectra have the maximum interclass separability measurements from the point of view of the whole one-dimension feature vector. Recognition experiments on several pulsar signals received at several frequency bands are carried out. The result shows that the selected line spectrum algorithm is suitable for extracting pulsar signal characteristics and has a good classification performance.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.12203039 and 11873083)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.12173053 and 12041303)+4 种基金supported by the National SKA Program of China(No.2020SKA0120100)the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of CAS(id.2018075)the CAS“Light of West China”Programthe Specialized Research Fund for State Key Laboratoriesthe Science and Technology Program of Guizhou Province([2021]4001)。
文摘We present a method by using the phase characteristics of radio observation data for pulsar search and candidate identification.The phase characteristics are relations between the pulsar signal and the phase correction in the frequency-domain,and we regard it as a new search diagnostic characteristic.Based on the phase characteristics,a search method is presented:calculating dispersion measure(DM)—frequency data to select candidate frequencies,and then confirming of candidates by using the broadband characteristics of pulsar signals.Based on this method,we performed a search test on short observation data of M15 and M71,which were observed by Five-hundredmeter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope,and some of the Galactic Plane Pulsar Snapshot survey data.Results show that it can get similar search results to PRESTO(Pulsa R Exploration and Search TOolkit)while having a faster processing speed.
基金funded by the Russian Foundationfor Basic Research through research project 18-32-00605supported by Russian Science Foundation grant18-12-00193supported by Act 211 of theGovernment of the Russian Federation, agreement No.02.A03.21.0006
文摘We present the database of maser sources in H2 O, OH and Si O lines that can be used to identify and study variable stars at evolved stages. Detecting the maser emission in H2 O, OH and Si O molecules toward infrared-excess objects is one of the methods for identifing long-period variables(LPVs, including miras and semiregulars), because these stars exhibit maser activity in their circumstellar shells. Our sample contains 1803 known LPV objects. Forty-six percent of these stars(832 objects) manifest maser emission in the line of at least one molecule: H2 O, OH or Si O. We use the database of circumstellar masers in order to search for LPVs which are not included in the General Catalogue of Variable Stars(GCVS). Our database contains 4806 objects(3866 objects without associations in GCVS) with maser detection in at least one molecule. Therefore it is possible to use the database in order to locate and study the large sample of LPV stars. The database can be accessed at http://maserdb.net.
基金supportedby the Russian Foundation of Basic Researches,projects 16–07–1162 and 18–02–00890Funding for the DPAC has been provided by nationalinstitutions, in particular the institutions participating inthe Gaia Multilateral Agreement
文摘The Binary star DataBase(BDB, http://bdb.inasan.ru) combines data from catalogs of binary and multiple stars of all observational types. There is a number of ways for variable stars to form or to be a part of binary or multiple systems. We describe how such stars are represented in the database.
基金a grant from the Israel Science Foundation(769/20).
文摘I build a toy model in the frame of the jittering jets explosion mechanism(JJEM)of core collapse supernovae that incorporates both the stochastically varying angular momentum component of the material that the newly born neutron star(NS)accretes and the constant angular momentum component,and show that the JJEM can account for the≃2.5–5M⊙mass gap between NSs and black holes(BHs).The random component of the angular momentum results from pre-collapse core convection fluctuations that are amplified by post-collapse instabilities.The fixed angular momentum component results from pre-collapse core rotation.For slowly rotating pre-collapse cores the stochastic angular momentum fluctuations form intermittent accretion disks(or belts)around the NS with varying angular momentum axes in all directions.The intermittent accretion disk/belt launches jets in all directions that expel the core material in all directions early on,hence leaving an NS remnant.Rapidly rotating pre-collapse cores form an accretion disk with angular momentum axis that is about the same as the pre-collapse core rotation.The NS launches jets along this axis and hence the jets avoid the equatorial plane region.Inflowing core material continues to feed the central object from the equatorial plane increasing the NS mass to form a BH.The narrow transition from slow to rapid pre-collapse core rotation,i.e.,from an efficient to inefficient jet feedback mechanism,accounts for the sparsely populated mass gap.
基金supported by the E. and J. Bishop Research Fund at the Technion and by a grant from the Israel Science Foundation
文摘I present a scenario by which an accretion flow with alternating angular momentum on to a newly born neutron star in a core collapse supernova(CCSN) efficiently amplifies magnetic fields and by that launches jets.The accretion flow of a collapsing core on to the newly born neutron star suffers spiral standing accretion shock instability(SASI).This instability leads to a stochastically variable angular momentum of the accreted gas,which in turn forms an accretion flow with alternating directions of the angular momentum,and hence alternating shear,at any given time.I study the shear in this alternating-shear sub-Keplerian inflow in published simulations,and present a new comparison with Keplerian accretion disks.From that comparison I argue that it might be as efficient as Keplerian accretion disks in amplifying magnetic fields by a dynamo.I suggest that although the average specific angular momentum of the accretion flow is small,namely,sub-Keplerian,this alternating-shear accretion flow can launch jets with varying directions,namely,jittering jets.Neutrino heating is an important ingredient in further energizing the jets.The jittering jets locally revive the stalled accretion shock in the momentarily polar directions,and by that they explode the star.I repeat again my call for a paradigm shift from a neutrino-driven explosion of CCSNe to a jet-driven explosion mechanism that is aided by neutrino heating.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC,Grant Nos.12173047,12322306,12003046,12233009,and 12133002)support from the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(no.2022055 and 2023065)support from the National Key Research and Development Program of China,grants 2022YFF0503404 and 2019YFA0405504。
文摘Long period variable(LPV)stars are very promising distance indicators in the infrared bands.We selected asymptotic giant branch(AGB)stars in the Large and Small Magellanic Cloud(LMC and SMC)from the Gaia Data Release 3 LPV catalog,and classified them into oxygen-rich(O-rich)and carbon-rich(C-rich)AGB stars.Using the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer database,we determined the W1-and W2-band period-luminosity relations(PLRs)for each pulsation-mode sequence of AGB stars.The dispersion of the PLRs of O-rich AGB stars in sequences C'and C is relatively small,around 0.14 mag.The PLRs of LMC and SMC are consistent in each sequence.In the W2 band,the PLR of large-amplitude C-rich AGB stars is steeper than that of small-amplitude C-rich AGB stars,due to their more circumstellar dust.By two methods,we find that some PLR sequences of O-rich AGB stars in the LMC are dependent on metallicity.The coefficients of the metallicity effect areβ=-0.533±0.213 mag dex~1andβ=-0.767±0.158 mag dex~1for sequence C in W1 and W2 bands,respectively.The significance of the metallicity effect in W1 band for the four sequences is 2.2-3.5σ.Both of these imply that distance measurements using O-rich Mira may need to take the metallicity effect into account.
基金supported by a grant from the Israel Science Foundation(769/20)。
文摘I estimate the frequencies of gravitational waves from jittering jets that explode core collapse supernovae(CCSNe)to crudely be 5–30 Hz,and with strains that might allow detection of Galactic CCSNe.The jittering jets explosion mechanism(JJEM)asserts that most CCSNe are exploded by jittering jets that the newly born neutron star(NS)launches within a few seconds.According to the JJEM,instabilities in the accreted gas lead to the formation of intermittent accretion disks that launch the jittering jets.Earlier studies that did not include jets calculated the gravitational frequencies that instabilities around the NS emit to have a peak in the crude frequency range of 100–2000Hz.Based on a recent study,I take the source of the gravitational waves of jittering jets to be the turbulent bubbles(cocoons)that the jets inflate as they interact with the outer layers of the core of the star at thousands of kilometers from the NS.The lower frequencies and larger strains than those of gravitational waves from instabilities in CCSNe allow future,and maybe present,detectors to identify the gravitational wave signals of jittering jets.Detection of gravitational waves from local CCSNe might distinguish between the neutrino-driven explosion mechanism and the JJEM.
基金supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2016YFA0400804,2017YFA0402602,2018YFA0404603 and 2018YFA0404703)the Operation,Maintenance and Upgrading Fund for Astronomical Telescopes and Facility Instruments,budgeted from the Ministry of Finance of China(MOF)and administered by the Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS),the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.11873080,U1831102,U1731238,U1938109,U1838104,11873040,11573010,11661161010,U1631103 and U1838102)+4 种基金the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of Chinese Academy of Sciences,the CAS“Light of West China”Program(Nos.2018-XBQNXZ-B-023,2018-XBQNXZ-B-025 and 2016-QNXZ-B-24)the Tianshan Youth Program No.2018Q039the Open Project Program of the Key Laboratory of FAST,NAOC,Chinese Academy of Sciences,the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation grant(2019M650847)the 2016 and 2018 Project of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China for Flexibly Fetching in Upscale Talents and the Science and Technology Fund of Guizhou Province(Grant Nos.(2016)–4008 and(2017)5726–37)part of the Australia Telescope National Facility which is funded by the Commonwealth of Australia for operation as a National Facility managed by CSIRO。
文摘PSR J0742-2822 is known for its quasi-periodic changes in the observed pulse profile and spindown rate.In this paper,we analyzed 13 years of timing data obtained with the Nanshan 25-m radio telescope and the Parkes 64-m radio telescope.We found that the average values of the spin-down rate((v))of this pulsar changed in four different states.We investigated the correlation between v and W50,and ascertained that the correlation changed in different states.Moreover,not all the changes in states and correlation can be associated with glitch activities.We examined the long term evolution ofγ-ray flux(0.1-300 GeV)and the pulse profiles corresponding to the four different states using Fermi-LAT Pass8(P8 R3)data from 2008 August 5 to 2019 October 1.We did not detect a significant change inγ-ray flux or the pulse profile.Our results suggest that the connection between pulsar rotation and emission is more complex than previously reported for this pulsar.
基金supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(2017YFA0402704)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.11733006,11403061,11903048,U1631131,11973060,U1531118,11403037,11225316,11173030,11303038,Y613991N01 and U1531245)+3 种基金the Key Laboratory of Optical Astronomy,National Astronomical Observatories,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences,CAS(Grant No.QYZDY-SSWSLH007)supports from the Science and Technology Development Fund,Macao SAR(file Nos.119/2017/A3,061/2017/A2 and 0007/2019/A)Faculty Research Grants of the Macao University of Science and Technology(No.FRG-19-004-SSI)Guo Shou Jing Telescope(the Large Sky Area MultiObject Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope LAMOST)is a National Major Scientific Project built by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.Funding for the project has been provided by the National Development and Reform Commissionpartially supported by the Open Project Program of the Key Laboratory of Optical Astronomy,National Astronomical Observatories,Chinese Academy of Sciences.
文摘We obtained seven spectra of the Be star V423 Aur on 2017 Dec.5 using the LAMOST MediumResolution Spectrograph with exposures from 600 to 1200 seconds.These spectra show the irregular Ha emission line profile variations(LPVs).In the seven spectra,from the 4 th to 7 th,the left part of Ha profile even shows excess.However,no variation can be seen from the follow-up observation of photometry by 1.26-m telescope and High-Resolution spectra by 2.16-m telescope.According to the High-Resolution spectra,we conclude that it is a B7 V type star with E(B-V)=0.709±0.036 and its vsini is221.8 km s-1.The short-term Ha LPVs could be explained as a result of the transient ejection of matter from rotating disk or shell around V423 Aur.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC, Grant No. 12073090)the China Manned Space Project with NO.CMS-CSST-2021-A08,CMS-CSST-2021-B03。
文摘Multiple stellar populations(MPs) in most star clusters older than 2 Gyr, as seen by lots of spectroscopic and photometric studies, have led to a significant challenge to the traditional view of star formation. In this field, spacebased instruments, in particular the Hubble Space Telescope(HST), have made a breakthrough as they significantly improved the efficiency of detecting MPs in crowded stellar fields by images. The China Space Station Telescope(CSST) and the HST are sensitive to a similar wavelength interval, but the CSST covers a field of view which is about 5–8 times wider than that of HST. One of its instruments, the Multi-Channel Imager(MCI),will have multiple filters covering a wide wavelength range from NUV to NIR, making the CSST a potentially powerful tool for studying MPs in clusters. In this work, we evaluate the efficiency of the designed filters for the MCI/CSST in revealing MPs in different color–magnitude diagrams(CMDs). We find that CMDs made with MCI/CSST photometry in appropriate UV filters are powerful tools to disentangle stellar populations with different abundances of He, C, N, O and Mg. On the contrary, the traditional CMDs are blind to multiple populations in globular clusters(GCs). We show that CSST has the potential of being the spearhead instrument for investigating MPs in GCs in the next decades.
基金partly supported by the SPARK program of IIT Roorkee(India)。
文摘We utilize the phenomenologically parameterized piecewise polytropic equations of state to study various neutron star properties.We investigate the compliance of these equations of state with several astronomical observations.We also demonstrate that the theoretical estimates of the fractional moment of inertia cannot explain all the pulsar glitches observed.We model the crust as a solid spheroidal shell to calculate the fractional moment of inertia of fast-spinning neutron stars.We also show that the braking index obtained in a simple magnetic dipole radiation model with a varying moment of inertia deviates significantly from the observed data.Future developments in both theory and observations may allow us to use the fractional moment of inertia and braking index as observational constraints for neutron star equation of state.
基金Department of Science and Technology,Govt.of India for providing financial assistance to carry out research。
文摘Pulsars are believed to be one of the most interesting objects in the universe.The emission mechanism of pulsars is still a conundrum to physicists,as there is no completely acceptable theory that can establish a consensus between theory and observation.Pulsars possess a gigantic magnetic field,to the order of 10^(12)Gauss,and generate a very powerful radio beam from the magnetic pole.However,the powerful radio beam is generated by some complicated coherent plasma processes and acceleration in the pulsar magnetosphere.The location of the origin of the radio waves has been predicted to come out exclusively from the polar cap zone,whose boundary is defined by the footprint of the last open field line.However,in this paper,we mainly try to generate the shape of the polar cap structure from an analytical solution and discuss how it gets distorted for different geometrical parameters due to the presence of perturbation such as polar cap current flow.Also,apart from that,we try to emphasize understanding the variation of radio emission height and polarization angle with respect to different geometryrelated parameters as well as with frequency.
