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In the eighth data release (DR8) of the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope, more than 318,740 low-resolution stellar spectra with types from B to early F and signal-to-noise ratios >50 were released. With this large volume of the early-type stars, we tried machine-learning algorithms to search for class-one and class-two chemical peculiars (CP1 and CP2), and to detect spectral features to distinguish the two classes in low-resolution spectra. We selected the XGBoost algorithm after comparing the classification efficiency of three machine-learning ensemble algorithms. Using XGBoost followed by the visual investigation, we presented a catalog of 20,694 sources, including 17,986 CP1 and 2708 CP2, in which 6917 CP1 and 1652 CP2 are newly discovered. We also list the spectral features to separate CP1 from CP2 discovered through XGBoost. The stellar parameters (including effective temperature (T eff), surface gravity (log g), metallicity [Fe/H]), the spatial distribution in Galactic coordinates, and the color magnitude were provided for all of the entries of the catalog. The T eff for CP1 distributes from ∼6000 to ∼8500 K, while for CP2 it distributes from ∼7000 to ∼13,700 K. The log g of CP1 ranges from 2.8 to 4.8 dex, peaking at 4.5 dex, and of CP2 it ranges from 2.0 to 5.0 dex, peaking at 3.6 dex, respectively. The [Fe/H] of CP1 and CP2 are from −1.4 to 0.4 dex, and the [Fe/H] of CP1 are on average higher than that of CP2. Almost all of the targets in our sample locate around the Galactic plane.

We report the “Bi-drifting” subpulses observed in PSR J0815+0939 using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). The observation at band from 1050 to 1450 MHz is evenly divided into two bands, i.e., the bands at center frequencies of 1150 and 1350 MHz. The mean pulse profiles and the “Bi-drifting” subpulses at these two bands are investigated. It is found that the pulse profiles at these two frequencies show four emission components, and the peak separations between four emission components decrease with the increase of frequency. In addition, the ratio of peak intensity of each component to the intensity of component IV at 1150 MHz is larger than that at 1350 MHz. We carry out an analysis of the longitude-resolved fluctuation spectrum and two-dimensional fluctuation spectrum for each emission component, and find that the P3 of components I, II and III is about 10.56, 10.57 and 10.59 s at 1150 and 1350 MHz. However, the reliable measurements of P3 of component IV and P2 for these four components were not obtained due to the low signal-to-noise ratio of observation data. The pulse energy distributions at frequencies 1150 and 1350 MHz are presented, and it is found that no nulling phenomenon has been found in this pulsar. With our observation from the FAST, the “Bi-drifting” subpulse phenomenon of PSR J0815+0939 is expanded from 400 to 1350 MHz, which is helpful for the relevant researchers to test and constrain the pulsar emission model, especially the model of “Bi-drifting” subpulse.

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 ( 〈 ν ˙ 〉 ) of this pulsar changed in four different states. We investigated the correlation between ν ˙ and W 50, and ascertained that the correlation changed in different 〈 ν ˙ 〉 states. Moreover, not all the changes in 〈 ν ˙ 〉 states and correlation can be associated with glitch activities. We examined the long term evolution of γ-ray flux (0.1–300 GeV) and the pulse profiles corresponding to the four different states using Fermi-LAT Pass 8 (P8R3) data from 2008 August 5 to 2019 October 1. We did not detect a significant change in γ-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.

The emission geometries, e.g. the emission region height, the beam shape, and radius-to-frequency mapping, are important predictions of pulsar radiation model. The multi-band radio observations carry such valuable information. In this paper, we study two bright pulsars, (PSRs B0329+54 and B1642-03) and observe them in high frequency (2.5 GHz, 5 GHz, and 8 GHz). The newly acquired data together with historical archive provide an atlas of multi-frequency profiles spanning from 100 MHz to 10 GHz. We study the frequency evolution of pulse profiles and the radiation regions with the these data. We firstly fit the pulse profiles with Gaussian functions to determine the phase of each component, and then calculate the radiation altitudes of different emission components and the radiation regions. We find that the inverse Compton scattering (ICS) model can reproduce the radiation geometry of these two pulsars. But for PSR B0329+54 the radiation can be generated in either annular gap (AG) or core gap (CG), while the radiation of PSR B1642-03 can only be generated in the CG. This difference is caused by the inclination angle and the impact angle of these two pulsars. The relation of beaming angle (the angle between the radiation direction and the magnetic axis) and the radiation altitudes versus frequency is also presented by modelling the beam-frequency evolution in the ICS model. The multi-band pulse profiles of these two pulsars can be described well by the ICS model combined with the CG and AG.

Integrated pulse profiles at 8.6~GHz obtained with the Shanghai Tian Ma Radio Telescope (TMRT) are presented for a sample of 26 pulsars. Mean flux densities and pulse width parameters of these pulsars are estimated. For eleven pulsars these are the first high-frequency observations and for a further four, our observations have a better signal-to-noise ratio than previous observations. For one (PSR J0742-2822) the 8.6~GHz profiles differs from previously observed profiles. A comparison of 19 profiles with those at other frequencies shows that in nine cases the separation between the outmost leading and trailing components decreases with frequency, roughly in agreement with radius-to-frequency mapping, whereas in the other ten the separation is nearly constant. Different spectral indices of profile components lead to the variation of integrated pulse profile shapes with frequency. In seven pulsars with multi-component profiles, the spectral indices of the central components are steeper than those of the outer components. For the 12 pulsars with multi-component profiles in the high-frequency sample, we estimate the core width using gaussian fitting and discuss the width-period relationship., Comment: 33 pages, 49 figures, 5 Tables; accepted by ApJ

Supernova 1987A is a core collapse supernova in the Large Magellanic Cloud, inside which the product is most likely a neutron star. Despite the most sensitive available detection instruments from radio to gamma-ray wavebands being exploited in the pass thirty years, there have not yet been any pulse signals detected. By considering the density of the medium plasma in the remnant of 1987A, we find that the plasma cut-off frequency is approximately 7 GHz, a value higher than the conventional observational waveband of radio pulsars. As derived, with the expansion of the supernova remnant, the radio signal will be detected in 2073 A.D. at 3 GHz.

PSR J1023+0038 is a known transitional pulsar, which switches between the accretion-powered X-ray pulsar state and the rotation-powered radio millisecond pulsar (MSP) state. Here, we study the conditions for its state transition by ascribing similar to GHz radio pulse emission to the plasma cutoff oscillation frequency at the magnetosphere, which depends on the plasma density or accretion rate. With the accretion X-ray luminosity declining fromhigh to low state (e.g., similar to 10(35) erg s(-1) to similar to 10(32) erg s(-1)), the magnetosphere boundary expands to the light cylinder, where the plasma density is low enough to permit the emission of radio waves at the several-GHz frequency band. Thus, for a sufficiently low accretion-rate state (similar to 1032 erg s(-1)), the radio emission at the several-GHz band is not blocked by the plasma, and the radio pulsar can be detected in the favored "observational windows," i.e., the L band (1-2 GHz), S band (2-4 GHz), and C band (4-8 GHz). Furthermore, to evaluate the penetration characteristics of the outgoing radio wave of low frequency, we calculate its skin depth, which is found to be a couple of centimeters for the low X-ray luminosity of 10(34)-10(32) erg s(-1), a scale that is much shorter than the light cylinder radius of about 100 km for MSPs.

The pulse profile of PSR B1133+16 is usually regarded as a conal-double structure. However, its multifrequency profiles cannot simply be fitted with two Gaussian functions, and a third component is always needed to fit the bridge region (between two peaks). This would introduce additional, redundant parameters. In this paper, through a comparison of five fitting functions (Gaussian, von Mises, hyperbolic secant, square hyperbolic secant, and Lorentz), it is found that the square hyperbolic secant function can best reproduce the profile, yielding an improved fit. Moreover, a symmetric 2D radiation beam function, instead of a simple 1D Gaussian function, is used to fit the profile. Each profile with either well-resolved or not-so-well-resolved peaks could be fitted adequately using this beam function, and the bridge emission between the two peaks does not need to be a new component. Adopting inclination and impact angles based on polarization measurements, the opening angle ({\theta}_{\mu}0) of the radiation beam in a certain frequency band is derived from beam-function fitting. The corresponding radiation altitudes are then calculated. Based on multi-frequency profiles, we also computed the Lorentz factors of the particles and their dispersion at those locations in both the curvature-radiation (CR) and inverse-Compton-scattering (ICS) models. We found that the Lorentz factors of the particles decrease rapidly as the radiation altitude increases. Besides, the radiation prefers to be generated in annular region rather than core region, and this needs further validation., Comment: 13 pages, 18 figures, ApJ, 816, 76

We perform a global analysis of the new combined data on inclusive structure functions in electron-proton scattering at small value of Bjorken x (x ≤ 0.01) in the framework of the color glass condensate. The new combined HERA data at small-x are studied by an analytic proton structure function. It is shown that the theoretical results of the analytic proton structure function are in agreement with the new combined experimental data. The longitudinal proton structure function is investigated with the analytic expression. It is demonstrated that our approach shows a very good description of the longitudinal structure function experimental data, which is evidence showing the saturation effect is a domination mechanism during the rapidity evolution of the gluon density at high energy.