Fast radio bursts(FRBs) are highly dispersed millisecond-duration radio bursts,[1,2]of which the physical origin is still not fully understood. FRB 20201124A is one of the most actively repeating FRBs. In this paper, ...Fast radio bursts(FRBs) are highly dispersed millisecond-duration radio bursts,[1,2]of which the physical origin is still not fully understood. FRB 20201124A is one of the most actively repeating FRBs. In this paper, we present the collection of 1863 burst dynamic spectra of FRB 20201124A measured with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope(FAST). The current collection, taken from the observation during the FRB active phase from April to June 2021, is the largest burst sample detected for any FRB so far. The standard PSRFITs format is adopted, including dynamic spectra of the burst, and the time information of the dynamic spectra, in addition, mask files help readers to identify the pulse positions are also provided. The dataset is available in Science Data Bank, with the link https://www.doi.org/10.57760/sciencedb.j00113.00076.展开更多
脉冲星搜寻是对脉冲星、引力波,以及对快速射电暴(Fast Radio Burst,简称FRB)等暂现源进行研究的基础。搜寻不仅可以扩大脉冲星样本,还可以发现极端性质的致密星。这有助于研究致密天体状态方程、星际介质、脉冲星导航、引力波探测等课...脉冲星搜寻是对脉冲星、引力波,以及对快速射电暴(Fast Radio Burst,简称FRB)等暂现源进行研究的基础。搜寻不仅可以扩大脉冲星样本,还可以发现极端性质的致密星。这有助于研究致密天体状态方程、星际介质、脉冲星导航、引力波探测等课题。目前,射电望远镜的单次巡天就可以产生百万数量级的脉冲星候选体。面对这些海量数据,仅仅依赖人工识别筛选,已不能满足数据的时效需求,更不能实现数据的实时处理。机器学习、计算机视觉应用等人工智能技术自诞生以来,其理论和技术已日益发展成熟,并已成功运用到脉冲星候选体筛选等射电天文研究领域。首先将介绍现有脉冲星搜寻的人工智能方法,再统计和分析已有脉冲星候选体筛选方法的性能,最后对FAST脉冲星候选体筛选工作进行展望。展开更多
地外文明搜寻(Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence,SETI)是射电天文的重要子领域。为了获得尽可能多的观测时间,SETI采用共时观测(Commensal Survey),即不单独占用望远镜时间,在望远镜进行其他观测任务的同时进行SETI信号的搜...地外文明搜寻(Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence,SETI)是射电天文的重要子领域。为了获得尽可能多的观测时间,SETI采用共时观测(Commensal Survey),即不单独占用望远镜时间,在望远镜进行其他观测任务的同时进行SETI信号的搜寻。介绍了SETI共时观测的概念以及SETI后端的整体框架,分析了SETI共时观测的主要策略;对实时数据接收系统SERENDIP进行了分析说明;同时分析了数据去射电干扰和候选目标提取方法;通过对500 m口径球面射电望远镜(Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope,FAST)的5 h漂移扫描数据处理,验证了SETI后端的有效性。最后对SETI的未来发展趋势进行了展望:FAST的高灵敏度不仅是对其它望远镜针对该项目观测数据的有效验证,更增加了探测到微弱地外文明信号的可能性。展开更多
We developed a GPU based single-pulse search pipeline(GSP)with a candidate-archiving database.Largely based upon the infrastructure of the open source PulsaR Exploration and Search Toolkit(PRESTO),GSP implements GPU a...We developed a GPU based single-pulse search pipeline(GSP)with a candidate-archiving database.Largely based upon the infrastructure of the open source PulsaR Exploration and Search Toolkit(PRESTO),GSP implements GPU acceleration of the de-dispersion and integrates a candidate-archiving database.We applied GSP to the data streams from the Commensal Radio Astronomy FAST Survey(CRAFTS),which resulted in quasi-real-time processing.The integrated candidate database facilitates synergistic usage of multiple machine-learning tools and thus improves efficient identification of radio pulsars such as rotating radio transients(RRATs)and fast radio bursts(FRBs).We first tested GSP on pilot CRAFTS observations with the FAST Ultra-Wide Band(UWB)receiver.GSP detected all pulsars known from the the Parkes multibeam pulsar survey in the corresponding sky area covered by the FAST-UWB.GSP also discovered 13 new pulsars.We measured the computational efficiency of GSP to be~120 times faster than the original PRESTO and~60 times faster than an MPI-parallelized version of PRESTO.展开更多
We present Arecibo 327 MHz confirmation and follow-up studies of seven new pulsars discovered by the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope(FAST).These pulsars are discovered in a pilot program of the C...We present Arecibo 327 MHz confirmation and follow-up studies of seven new pulsars discovered by the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope(FAST).These pulsars are discovered in a pilot program of the Commensal Radio Astronomy FAST Survey(CRAFTS)with the ultra-widebandwidth commissioning receiver.Five of them are normal pulsars and two are extreme nulling slow pulsars.PSR J2111+2132’s dispersion measure(DM:78.5 pc cm^(-3))is above the upper limits of the two Galactic free electron density models,NE2001 and YMW16,and PSR J2057+2133’s position is out of the Scutum-Crux Arm,making them uniquely useful for improving the Galactic free electron density model in their directions.We present a detailed single pulse analysis for the slow nulling pulsars.We show evidence that PSR J2323+1214’s main pulse component follows a non-Poisson distribution and marginal evidence for a sub-pulse-drift or recurrent period of 32.3±0.4 rotations from PSR J0539+0013.We discuss the implication of our finding to the pulsar radiation mechanism.展开更多
We present a pilot HI survey of 17 Planck Galactic Cold Clumps(PGCCs)with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope(FAST).HI Narrow Self-Absorption(HINSA)is an effective method to detect cold HI being ...We present a pilot HI survey of 17 Planck Galactic Cold Clumps(PGCCs)with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope(FAST).HI Narrow Self-Absorption(HINSA)is an effective method to detect cold HI being mixed with molecular hydrogen H2 and improves our understanding of the atomic to molecular transition in the interstellar medium.HINSA was found in 58%PGCCs that we observed.The column density of HINSA was found to have an intermediate correlation with that of 13CO,following log(N(HINSA))=(0.52±0.26)log(N13CO)+(10±4.1).HI abundance relative to total hydrogen[HI]/[H]has an average value of 4.4×10-3,which is about 2.8 times of the average value of previous HINSA surveys toward molecular clouds.For clouds with total column density NH>5×1020 cm-2,an inverse correlation between HINSA abundance and total hydrogen column density is found,confirming the depletion of cold HI gas during molecular gas formation in more massive clouds.Nonthermal line width of 13CO is about 0-0.5 kms-1 larger than that of HINSA.One possible explanation of narrower non-thermal width of HINSA is that HINSA region is smaller than that of 13CO.Based on an analytic model of H2 formation and H2 dissociation by cosmic ray,we found the cloud ages to be within 106.7-107.0 yr for five sources.展开更多
LIGO-Virgo has observed the gravitational waves(GWs)from the coalescence of binary black hole(BBH)and binary neutron star(BNS)during O1 and O2,and the ones from NS-BH are expected to be hunted in the operating O3 run....LIGO-Virgo has observed the gravitational waves(GWs)from the coalescence of binary black hole(BBH)and binary neutron star(BNS)during O1 and O2,and the ones from NS-BH are expected to be hunted in the operating O3 run.The population properties and mass distribution of NS-BH mergers are poorly understood now,thus researchers simulated their chirp mass(M)distribution by a synthetic model,in which the BHs and NSs were inferred by LIGO-Virgo(O1/O2),and obtained the values in the range of 2.1 M_(⊙)<M<7.3 M_(⊙).In this paper,we further simulate the GW frequency(fGW)distribution of NS-BH mergers by the above-stated synthetic model,with a basic binary system model through the Monte Carlo method.Our results predict that the median with 90%credible intervals is 165+475-64 Hz in the case of Schwarzschild BH when the system just before merger,and this GW frequency is expected to increase several times in the merger stage,which is lying in the frequency band of LIGO-Virgo,i.e.,about 15 Hz to a few kHz.Our results provide an important reference for hunting the NS-BH mergers by the on-going O3 run of LIGO-Virgo.展开更多
We report on the continuum and polarization observations of the Cygnus Loop supernova remnant(SNR)conducted by the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope(FAST).FAST observations provide high angular res...We report on the continuum and polarization observations of the Cygnus Loop supernova remnant(SNR)conducted by the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope(FAST).FAST observations provide high angular resolution and high sensitivity images of the SNR,which will help to disentangle its nature.We obtained Stokes I,Q and U maps over the frequency range of 1.03-1.46 GHz split into channels of 7.63 kHz.The original angular resolution is in the range of~3’-~3.’8,and we combined all the data at a common resolution of 4’.The temperature scale of the total intensity and the spectral index from the in-band temperature-temperature plot are consistent with previous observations,which validates the data calibration and map-making procedures.The rms sensitivity for the band-averaged total-intensity map is about 20 mK in brightness temperature,which is at the level of confusion limit.For the first time,we apply rotation measure(RM)synthesis to the Cygnus Loop to obtain the polarization intensity and RM maps.The rms sensitivity for polarization is about 5 mK,far below the total-intensity confusion limit.We also obtained RMs of eight extragalactic sources,and demonstrate that the wide-band frequency coverage helps to overcome the ambiguity of RM determinations.展开更多
基金supported by the National SKA Program of China (Grant Nos. 2020SKA0120100 and 2020SKA0120200)the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 12041304, 11873067, 11988101, 12041303, 11725313, 11725314, 11833003, 12003028, 12041306, 12103089, U2031209, U2038105, and U1831207)+8 种基金the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant Nos. 2019YFA0405100, 2017YFA0402602, 2018YFA0404204, and 2016YFA0400801)Key Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. QYZDJ-SSW-SLH021)Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (Grant No. BK20211000)Cultivation Project for FAST Scientific Payoff and Research Achievement of CAMS-CAS, the Strategic Priority Research Program on Space Science, the Western Light Youth Project of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant Nos. XDA15360000, XDA15052700, and XDB23040400)funding from the MaxPlanck Partner Group, the science research grants from the China Manned Space Project (Grant Nos. CMS-CSST2021-B11 and CMS-CSST-2021-A11)PKU development (Grant No. 7101502590)support from the XPLORER PRIZEsupported by Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No. 14380046)the Program for Innovative Talents, Entrepreneur in Jiangsu。
文摘Fast radio bursts(FRBs) are highly dispersed millisecond-duration radio bursts,[1,2]of which the physical origin is still not fully understood. FRB 20201124A is one of the most actively repeating FRBs. In this paper, we present the collection of 1863 burst dynamic spectra of FRB 20201124A measured with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope(FAST). The current collection, taken from the observation during the FRB active phase from April to June 2021, is the largest burst sample detected for any FRB so far. The standard PSRFITs format is adopted, including dynamic spectra of the burst, and the time information of the dynamic spectra, in addition, mask files help readers to identify the pulse positions are also provided. The dataset is available in Science Data Bank, with the link https://www.doi.org/10.57760/sciencedb.j00113.00076.
文摘脉冲星搜寻是对脉冲星、引力波,以及对快速射电暴(Fast Radio Burst,简称FRB)等暂现源进行研究的基础。搜寻不仅可以扩大脉冲星样本,还可以发现极端性质的致密星。这有助于研究致密天体状态方程、星际介质、脉冲星导航、引力波探测等课题。目前,射电望远镜的单次巡天就可以产生百万数量级的脉冲星候选体。面对这些海量数据,仅仅依赖人工识别筛选,已不能满足数据的时效需求,更不能实现数据的实时处理。机器学习、计算机视觉应用等人工智能技术自诞生以来,其理论和技术已日益发展成熟,并已成功运用到脉冲星候选体筛选等射电天文研究领域。首先将介绍现有脉冲星搜寻的人工智能方法,再统计和分析已有脉冲星候选体筛选方法的性能,最后对FAST脉冲星候选体筛选工作进行展望。
文摘地外文明搜寻(Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence,SETI)是射电天文的重要子领域。为了获得尽可能多的观测时间,SETI采用共时观测(Commensal Survey),即不单独占用望远镜时间,在望远镜进行其他观测任务的同时进行SETI信号的搜寻。介绍了SETI共时观测的概念以及SETI后端的整体框架,分析了SETI共时观测的主要策略;对实时数据接收系统SERENDIP进行了分析说明;同时分析了数据去射电干扰和候选目标提取方法;通过对500 m口径球面射电望远镜(Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope,FAST)的5 h漂移扫描数据处理,验证了SETI后端的有效性。最后对SETI的未来发展趋势进行了展望:FAST的高灵敏度不仅是对其它望远镜针对该项目观测数据的有效验证,更增加了探测到微弱地外文明信号的可能性。
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFCGrant Nos.11988101,11725313,11690024,12041303,U1731238,U2031117,U1831131 and U1831207)+2 种基金supported by the Science and Technology Foundation of Guizhou Province(No.LKS[2010]38)support by the Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS(id.2021055)cultivation project for FAST scientific payoff and research achievement of CAMS-CAS。
文摘We developed a GPU based single-pulse search pipeline(GSP)with a candidate-archiving database.Largely based upon the infrastructure of the open source PulsaR Exploration and Search Toolkit(PRESTO),GSP implements GPU acceleration of the de-dispersion and integrates a candidate-archiving database.We applied GSP to the data streams from the Commensal Radio Astronomy FAST Survey(CRAFTS),which resulted in quasi-real-time processing.The integrated candidate database facilitates synergistic usage of multiple machine-learning tools and thus improves efficient identification of radio pulsars such as rotating radio transients(RRATs)and fast radio bursts(FRBs).We first tested GSP on pilot CRAFTS observations with the FAST Ultra-Wide Band(UWB)receiver.GSP detected all pulsars known from the the Parkes multibeam pulsar survey in the corresponding sky area covered by the FAST-UWB.GSP also discovered 13 new pulsars.We measured the computational efficiency of GSP to be~120 times faster than the original PRESTO and~60 times faster than an MPI-parallelized version of PRESTO.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.11988101,U2031117,11725313,12041303,11873067,U1831131 and U1631132)the China Scholarship Council(No.201704910686)+4 种基金the CASMPG LEGACY projectthe Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.XDB23000000)the National SKA Program of China(No.2020SKA0120200)the Foundation of Guizhou Provincial Education Department(No.KY(2020)003)the Cultivation Project for FAST Scientific Payoff and the Research Achievement of CAMS-CAS。
文摘We present Arecibo 327 MHz confirmation and follow-up studies of seven new pulsars discovered by the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope(FAST).These pulsars are discovered in a pilot program of the Commensal Radio Astronomy FAST Survey(CRAFTS)with the ultra-widebandwidth commissioning receiver.Five of them are normal pulsars and two are extreme nulling slow pulsars.PSR J2111+2132’s dispersion measure(DM:78.5 pc cm^(-3))is above the upper limits of the two Galactic free electron density models,NE2001 and YMW16,and PSR J2057+2133’s position is out of the Scutum-Crux Arm,making them uniquely useful for improving the Galactic free electron density model in their directions.We present a detailed single pulse analysis for the slow nulling pulsars.We show evidence that PSR J2323+1214’s main pulse component follows a non-Poisson distribution and marginal evidence for a sub-pulse-drift or recurrent period of 32.3±0.4 rotations from PSR J0539+0013.We discuss the implication of our finding to the pulsar radiation mechanism.
基金supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(2017YFA0402600 and 2016YFA0400702)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.11988101,11803051,11725313 and 11721303)+3 种基金CAS International Partnership Program(114A11KYSB20160008)CAS“Light of West China”ProgramCAS Interdisciplinary Innovation Team and Young Researcher Grant of National Astronomical Observatoriessupported in part by the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of CAS(No.2018075)
文摘We present a pilot HI survey of 17 Planck Galactic Cold Clumps(PGCCs)with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope(FAST).HI Narrow Self-Absorption(HINSA)is an effective method to detect cold HI being mixed with molecular hydrogen H2 and improves our understanding of the atomic to molecular transition in the interstellar medium.HINSA was found in 58%PGCCs that we observed.The column density of HINSA was found to have an intermediate correlation with that of 13CO,following log(N(HINSA))=(0.52±0.26)log(N13CO)+(10±4.1).HI abundance relative to total hydrogen[HI]/[H]has an average value of 4.4×10-3,which is about 2.8 times of the average value of previous HINSA surveys toward molecular clouds.For clouds with total column density NH>5×1020 cm-2,an inverse correlation between HINSA abundance and total hydrogen column density is found,confirming the depletion of cold HI gas during molecular gas formation in more massive clouds.Nonthermal line width of 13CO is about 0-0.5 kms-1 larger than that of HINSA.One possible explanation of narrower non-thermal width of HINSA is that HINSA region is smaller than that of 13CO.Based on an analytic model of H2 formation and H2 dissociation by cosmic ray,we found the cloud ages to be within 106.7-107.0 yr for five sources.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.11988101,11773005,U2031203,U1631236,11703001,U1731238,U1938117,11725313,and 11721303)the International Partnership Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.114A11KYSB20160008)+1 种基金the National Key R&D Program of China(Grant No.2016YFA0400702)the Subsidy Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.2021GZJ006)。
文摘LIGO-Virgo has observed the gravitational waves(GWs)from the coalescence of binary black hole(BBH)and binary neutron star(BNS)during O1 and O2,and the ones from NS-BH are expected to be hunted in the operating O3 run.The population properties and mass distribution of NS-BH mergers are poorly understood now,thus researchers simulated their chirp mass(M)distribution by a synthetic model,in which the BHs and NSs were inferred by LIGO-Virgo(O1/O2),and obtained the values in the range of 2.1 M_(⊙)<M<7.3 M_(⊙).In this paper,we further simulate the GW frequency(fGW)distribution of NS-BH mergers by the above-stated synthetic model,with a basic binary system model through the Monte Carlo method.Our results predict that the median with 90%credible intervals is 165+475-64 Hz in the case of Schwarzschild BH when the system just before merger,and this GW frequency is expected to increase several times in the merger stage,which is lying in the frequency band of LIGO-Virgo,i.e.,about 15 Hz to a few kHz.Our results provide an important reference for hunting the NS-BH mergers by the on-going O3 run of LIGO-Virgo.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC, No. 11763008)the Science & Technology Department of Yunnan Province-Yunnan University Joint Funding (2019FY003005)+2 种基金supported by the CAS-NWO cooperation programme (Grant No. GJHZ1865)supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. U1831103)supported by the Key Lab of FAST, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences
文摘We report on the continuum and polarization observations of the Cygnus Loop supernova remnant(SNR)conducted by the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope(FAST).FAST observations provide high angular resolution and high sensitivity images of the SNR,which will help to disentangle its nature.We obtained Stokes I,Q and U maps over the frequency range of 1.03-1.46 GHz split into channels of 7.63 kHz.The original angular resolution is in the range of~3’-~3.’8,and we combined all the data at a common resolution of 4’.The temperature scale of the total intensity and the spectral index from the in-band temperature-temperature plot are consistent with previous observations,which validates the data calibration and map-making procedures.The rms sensitivity for the band-averaged total-intensity map is about 20 mK in brightness temperature,which is at the level of confusion limit.For the first time,we apply rotation measure(RM)synthesis to the Cygnus Loop to obtain the polarization intensity and RM maps.The rms sensitivity for polarization is about 5 mK,far below the total-intensity confusion limit.We also obtained RMs of eight extragalactic sources,and demonstrate that the wide-band frequency coverage helps to overcome the ambiguity of RM determinations.
