The FAST Globular Cluster Pulsar Survey (GC FANS)
Yujie Lian, Zhichen Pan, Haiyan Zhang, Shuo Cao, P. C. C. Freire, Lei Qian, Ralph P. Eatough, Lijing Shao, Scott M. Ransom, Duncan R. Lorimer, Dejiang Yin, Yinfeng Dai, Kuo Liu, Lin Wang, Yujie Wang, Zhongli Zhang, Zhonghua Feng, Baoda Li, Minghui Li, Tong Liu, Yaowei Li

TL;DR
The GC FANS survey using FAST discovered 60 pulsars in globular clusters, including unique binary systems, and provided detailed timing solutions, revealing insights into pulsar populations and binary evolution in clusters.
Contribution
This paper presents the first comprehensive survey of globular cluster pulsars with FAST, including new discoveries and detailed timing solutions for several pulsars, highlighting unique binary systems and population characteristics.
Findings
Discovered 60 pulsars, including 55 millisecond pulsars.
Identified the widest known globular cluster binaries.
Suggested most clusters resemble the Galactic disk MSP population.
Abstract
By January 2025, 60 pulsars were discovered by the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope globular cluster (GC) pulsar survey (GC FANS), with spin periods spanning 1.98 ms to 3960.72 ms. Of these, 55 are millisecond pulsars (MSPs; ms), while 34 are binaries with orbital periods spanning 0.12 days to 466.47 days. This paper describes GC FANS, a deep, thorough search for pulsars in 41 GCs in the FAST sky () and describes new discoveries in 14 of them. We present updated timing solutions for M92A, NGC 6712A, M71A, and M71E, all of which are ``spider'' pulsars with short orbital periods. We present new timing solutions for M71B, C, and D. With orbital periods of 466 and 378 days, M71B and M71C are the widest known GC binaries; these systems resemble the normal wide MSP-He WD systems in the Galactic disk. With a spin period of 101…
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Taxonomy
TopicsPulsars and Gravitational Waves Research · Astronomy and Astrophysical Research · Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
