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Unusual Emission Variations Near the Eclipse of A Black Widow PSR J1720-0533

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arxiv 2111.02690 v1 pith:C74VVDS3 submitted 2021-11-04 astro-ph.HE hep-ph

Unusual Emission Variations Near the Eclipse of A Black Widow PSR J1720-0533

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We report on an {unusually} bright observation of PSR J1720$-$0533 using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). The pulsar is in a black widow system that {was discovered by the Commensal Radio Astronomy FAST Survey (CRAFTS). By coincidence, a bright scintillation maximum was simultaneous with the eclipse in our observation which allowed for precise measurements of flux density variations, as well as dispersion measure (DM) and polarization.} We found that there are quasi-periodic pulse emission variations with a modulation period of $\sim$ {22\,s} during the ingress of the eclipse, which could be caused by plasma lensing. {No such periodic modulation was found during the egress of the eclipse. } {The linear polarization of the pulsar disappears before the eclipse, even before there is a visually obvious change in DM. We also found that the pulse scattering maybe play an important role in the eclipse of PSR J1720$-$0533.}

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