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Bimodal Radio Bursts and Long-timescale State Switching in the Rotating Radio Transient J2237+2828

  • Authors: Jin-Tao Xie, Qu Tang, Jing-Bo Wang, Na Wang, Yi Feng, Di Li, Shuang-Qiang Wang, Yue Hu, Shi-jun Dang, Jian-Ping Yuan, Sheng-Nan Sun, Yu-Bin Wang, Zu-Rong Zhou

Jin-Tao Xie et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1003 .

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Temporal statistics of the waiting times between single pulses for J2237+2828. (a) Histogram of the observed waiting times (Δt), excluding consecutive burst detections (Δt < 1.5P0). The distribution reveals a significant population of long quiescent intervals extending up to ∼3057.71 s. (b) The survival function N(>Δt) plotted on a semi-logarithmic scale. The red dashed line represents the theoretical expectation for a memory-less Poisson process (exponential decay). The observed data (blue circles) deviates significantly from the straight line, exhibiting a heavy tail at long timescales. This deviation indicates that the burst occurrence is non-Poissonian and suggests a physical process involving long-timescale magnetospheric recovery or energy accumulation.

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