The Astrophysical Journal (Jan 2024)

The Study of Mode-switching Behavior of PSR J0614+2229 Using the Parkes Ultra–wide-bandwidth Receiver Observations

  • Yanqing Cai,
  • Shijun Dang,
  • Rai Yuen,
  • Lunhua Shang,
  • Feifei Kou,
  • Jianping Yuan,
  • Lei Zhang,
  • Zurong Zhou,
  • Na Wang,
  • Qingying Li,
  • Zhigang Wen,
  • Wenming Yan,
  • Shuangqiang Wang,
  • Shengnan Sun,
  • Habtamu Menberu Tedila,
  • Shuo Xiao,
  • Xin Xu,
  • Rushuang Zhao,
  • Qijun Zhi,
  • Aijun Dong,
  • Bing Zhang,
  • Wei Li,
  • Yingying Ren,
  • Yujia Liu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad395f
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 966, no. 2
p. 241

Abstract

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In this paper we present a detailed single-pulse and polarization study of PSR J0614+2229 based on the archived data observed on 2019 August 15 (MJD 58710) and 2019 September 12 (MJD 58738) using the ultra−wide-bandwidth low-frequency receiver on the Parkes radio telescope. The single-pulse sequences show that this pulsar switches between two emission states, in which the emission of state A occurs earlier than that of state B in pulse longitude. We found that the variation in relative brightness between the two states varies temporally and both states follow a simple power law very well. Based on the phase-aligned multifrequency profiles, we found that there is a significant difference in the distributions of spectral index across the emission regions of the two states. Furthermore, we obtained the emission height evolution for the two emission states and found that, at a fixed frequency, the emission height of state A is higher than that of state B. What is even more interesting is that the emission heights of both states A and B do not change with frequency. Our results suggest that the mode switching of this pulsar is possibly caused by changes in the emission heights that alter the distributions of spectral index across the emission regions of states A and B, resulting in frequency-dependent behaviors, i.e., intensity and pulse width.

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