Observational study reveals long trains of quasi-periodic micropulses in PSR J0034−0721, suggesting radio emission timescales an order of magnitude smaller than standard empirical models predict.
Pulsar microstructure probes the shortest coherent timescales of radio emission. Using extremely sensitive, high-time-resolution FAST observations of PSR J0034−0721 with a sampling rate of 8.192μs, we identified 33 trains of quasi-periodically oscillating micropulses. Strikingly, such micropulse trains consist of tens of micropulses, and the longest train has at least 143 micropulses. The characteristic quasi-period of quasi-periodic micropulses from these 33 trains is 89⁺⁸⁸₋₄₄ μs, one magnitude smaller than the expected value from the famous empirical Pμ–P0 relation given by Kramer et al. (2024).
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