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Timing, Polarization, and Single-Pulse Properties of Long-Period FAST Pulsars

Habtamu Menberu Tedila, Shijun Dang, Di Li, Pei Wang, Jianping Yuan, Rai Yuen, Na Wang, Shakhboz Khasanov

astro-ph.HEarXiv:2608.22771

Abstract

We present phase-connected timing and polarization measurements for two long-period FAST-CRAFTS pulsars, PSRs J0000+6252 and J2131+3642, and extend single-pulse emission-state analysis to a five-source sample including PSRs J1903+1407, J1502+4653, and J2112+4058. FAST L-band timing baselines span 414 to 511 days; the two pulsars have spin periods of 1.11 to 1.55 s, period derivatives of (3.99 to 4.06)×10-15~ s~s-1, characteristic ages of 4.34 to 6.16 Myr, surface magnetic fields of (2.15 to 2.52)×1012 G, and spin-down luminosities of (4.21×1031 to 1.16×1032)~ erg~s-1. Their rotation measures are 70.226.7 and -44.67.6~ rad~m-2, with linear polarization fractions of 17.6\% to 27.2\%. PSR J2131+3642 shows a short monotonic PA segment permitting a formal rotating-vector-model fit, though limited longitude coverage leaves the geometric parameters poorly constrained; PSR J0000+6252 has too few PA points for such a fit. Gaussian mixture modeling (GMM) of single-pulse energy distributions identifies null, weak, and burst components in PSRs J0000+6252, J1903+1407, J1502+4653, and J2112+4058, while J2131+3642 shows only weak and burst states. We also identify bright single pulses (peak intensity ≥10× the integrated average profile): 42 in J0000+6252, four each in J1903+1407 and J2112+4058, and none in J2131+3642 or J1502+4653. These bright pulses occur within the main emission window with no evidence of periodic recurrence, consistent with sporadic enhancements of the normal radio-emission beam. For J2112+4058, we measure a scattering timescale τ sc=5.840.18 ms at ν ref=1.25 GHz. Together, these results highlight the diversity of magnetospheric variability among slowly rotating neutron stars.

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