H I absorption line and anomalous dispersion in the radio pulses of PSR B1937+21

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H I absorption line and anomalous dispersion in the radio pulses of PSR B1937+21

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Jinchen Jiang, Shunshun Cao, Kejia Lee, Bojun Wang, Heng Xu, Siyuan Chen, Yanjun Guo, Peng Jiang, Weicong Jing, Jiguang Lu, Jiangwei Xu, Renxin Xu, Zihan Xue

Abstract

We use the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) to observe the bright millisecond pulsar (MSP) PSR B1937+21 (J1939+2134) and record the data in the band from 1.0 GHz to 1.5 GHz. We measure the neutral hydrogen (HI) emission and absorption lines near 1420 MHz ($\lambda \simeq 21$ cm). We derive the kinematic distance of the pulsar with the HI observation, and update the upper bound of kinematic distance from the previous $14.8\pm 0.9$ npc in the Outer Arm to the nearer $9.4\pm 0.5$ kpc in the Perseus Arm. By comparing with the archival absorption spectra observed decades ago, we notice possible variations in the absorption spectra towards this pulsar, which corresponds to a possible tiny-scale atomic structure (TSAS) of a few AU in size. We also verify the apparent faster-than-light anomalous dispersion at the HI absorption line of this pulsar previously reported.

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