Zhifu Gao & Renxin Xu 
PULSAR ASTRONOMY [EPUB ebook] 
Unveiling Compact Stars with China’s New Facilities

Pulsars, since their discovery in 1967, have been regarded as natural laboratories for the study of matter under extreme physical conditions of density, gravity and intensity of magnetic fields. In recent years, with a rapidly developing economy, China has made great achievements in the fields of cosmology, astronomy and astrophysics. This economic scenario, combined with China’s millennial tradition of seeking to expand the frontiers of knowledge, led to the planning and construction of several large radio telescopes and the launch of a series of deep space exploration satellites. As a concrete result of this broad effort, today China is gradually advancing to the forefront of scientific research and technological innovation in the field of Pulsar Astronomy. The main highlight of this book is to present the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) and its new discoveries and scientific results. To date, FAST has discovered more than 800 new pulsars through its galactic plane survey and drift sweep. The high-precision millisecond pulsars found by FAST can be used to detect extremely lowfrequency gravitational waves, establish pulsar timing patterns, and search for unknown objects in the solar system. For the vast majority of readers, this book undoubtedly represents a rich source of documentation, information and learning about pulsars and their impact on modern astrophysics and particularly about China’s contribution to new achievements in this area.

Contents:

• Review of Pulsar Astrophysics: Magnetars, Isolated Neutron Stars, and Radio Pulsars:
  
  
  
  • Magnetars (Sandro Mereghetti)
  
  
  • High-Energy Emission in SGRs/AXPs (Ronaldo V Lobato, Jaziel G Coelho, and Manuel M Malheiro)
  
  
  • The Demographics of Isolated Neutron Stars From X-ray Survey Data (Adriana Mancini Pires)
  
  
  • Evolution of Long-Period Compact Radio Sources Driven by Winds (Jorge E Horvath, Lucas M de Sá, Lívia S Rocha, Gustavo Y Chinen, Lucas G Barão, and Márcio G B de Avellar)
  
  


• FAST: The Five Hundred Meter Aperture Spherical Telescope; HXMT: The Hard X-Ray Modulation Telescope; Tian Ma: The Tian Ma 65 m Radio Telescope; LHAASO: Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory:
  
  
  
  • The Fundamental Performance of FAST with 19-Beam Receiver at L Band (Peng Jiang)
  
  
  • Single-Pulse Study of Radio Pulsars Using FAST (Ji-Guang Lu)
  
  
  • FAST’s Impact on Fast Radio Burst (FRB) (Wei-Yang Wang and Kejia Lee)
  
  
  • The Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT) (Mingyu Ge, Wentao Ye, and Fangjun Lu)
  
  
  • Advances in Neutron Stars from Insight-HXMT (Mingyu Ge)
  
  
  • HXMT Views on the Accreting Millisecond X-ray Pulsars (Zhao-Sheng Li)
  
  
  • Pulsars at Shanghai Tian Ma 65 m Radio Telescope (Zhen Yan, Zhiqiang Shen, Yajun Wu, Rongbing Zhao, and Qinghui Liu)
  
  
  • The Large High-Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) (Xin-Hua Ma and Zhen Cao)
  
  
  • The Highest Energy Gamma Ray from Pulsars Detected by LHAASO (Xin-Hua Ma and Zhen Cao)
  
  


• QTT: Qitai Radio Telescope; JRT: Jingdong 120 m Radio Telescope; e XTP: X-Ray Timing and Polarimetry Mission; GECAM: Electromagnetic Counterpart All-sky Monitor Mission; Hubbs: Hot Universe Baryon Surveyor Space-based X-ray Telescope:
  
  
  
  • The Qitai Radio Telescope (QTT) (Na Wang)
  
  
  • Hot Universe Baryon Surveyor (HUBS) (Zhao-Sheng Li)
  
  
  • The 120 m Jingdong Radio Telescope (JRT) (Longfei Hao, Min Wang, and Yonghua Xu)
  
  
  • The Enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry Mission (e XTP) (Yu-Peng Xu, Y P Xu, A Santangelo, and Shuang-Nan Zhang)
  
  
  • GECAM: A Gamma-Ray Monitor Constellation (Shaolin Xiong, Yanqiu Zhang, and Chenwei Wang)
  
  


• On Pulsars and Compact Stars Science:
  
  
  
  • Testing Relativistic Gravity with Radio Timing of Neutron Stars (Lijing Shao)
  
  
  • The Equation of State of Pulsars (Zhenyu Zhu, Zhiqiang Miao, and Ang Li)
  
  
  • Progress on the Study of Radio Emission Beam of Pulsars (Hong-Guang Wang, Xiancong Wu, and Gaige Deng)
  
  
  • The Inner Structure of Pulsars (Xiao-Yu Lai and Renxin Xu)
  
  
  • Fast Pulsars, Neutron Stars, and Astrophysical Strange Quark Matter Objects (Delaney Farrell, Fridolin Weber, Milva G Orsaria, Ignacio F Ranea-Sandoval, Martín Canullán, Rodrigo Negreiros, Takashi Katayama, and Ian Wagaman)
  
  
  • Axisymmetric Oscillations of Rotating Neutron Stars: Gravitational Wave Emission (Stéphane Vincent and José A de Freitas Pacheco)
  
  


• Summary and Outlook:
  
  
  
  • Summary and Outlook (Zhifu Gao, Renxin Xu, Jorge Horvath, and César Augusto Zen Vasconcellos)
  
  

Readership: This will be of interest to worldwide audience, since these new and upcoming instruments will put China in a leading position in radio and X-ray astronomy, and possibly others.