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FAST Polarization Catalog of FRB 20240114A

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2026-04-21 v2

Abstract

Polarization measurements of fast radio bursts (FRBs) probe the magnetized plasma surrounding their central engines. FRB~20240114A is an exceptionally active repeating source, with 17,356 bursts detected between 2024 January 28 and 2025 May 30 by FAST, enabling time-resolved polarimetric studies. In this work, we present a polarimetric catalog of 6,131 bright bursts (with a signal-to-noise ratio S/N \geq 20, 35.3% of the total sample), including arrival time (MJDtopo_{\text{topo}}), dispersion measure (DM), burst width (Weff_{\text{eff}}), bandwidth, Faraday rotation measure (RM), linear and circular polarization degrees (DOL, DOC), and intrinsic polarization angle (PA0_0). We detect a clear temporal evolution of RM: after an initial stable phase, it decreases linearly by \sim200 rad m2\rm rad\ m^{-2} over 200 days, forming a bimodal distribution, whereas DM remains stable at 528.9 pc cm3\rm pc\ cm^{-3}. The linear polarization fraction is generally high, with the 3σ\sigma lower bound around 76%, while circular polarization is low, with 1,157 of 17,356 bursts (6.67%) having DOC \geq10%. We perform a power-law fit between V|\textrm{V}|/I and RM|\textrm{RM}|, which yields an index of 2.98±0.80-2.98 \pm 0.80. It is found that the combined 2D distribution of L/I versus V/I remains stable, implying that the emission mechanism is largely invariant. Our PA0_0 measurements show a broad, non-uniform distribution, implying a complex emission geometry. These results suggest that FRB~20240114A resides in a dynamically evolving magneto-ionic environment. This catalog provides a foundation for studies of repeating FRB progenitors and their environments.

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@article{arxiv.2603.20663,
  title  = {FAST Polarization Catalog of FRB 20240114A},
  author = {Tian-Cong Wang and Jun-Shuo Zhang and Xiao-Hui Liu and Wei-Yang Wang and Pei Wang and He Gao and Di Li and Bing Zhang and Wei-Wei Zhu and Jin-Lin Han and Ke-Jia Lee and Ye Li and Dengke Zhou and Wan-Jin Lu and Jintao Xie and Jianhua Fang and Jin-Huang Cao and Chen-Chen Miao and Yu-Hao Zhu and Yunchuan Chen and Si-Lu Xu and Huaxi Chen and Xiao-Feng Cheng and Qin Wu and Shuo Cao and Long-Xuan Zhang and Shi-Yan Tian and Yong-Kun Zhang and Yi Feng and De-Jiang Zhou and Jia-Rui Niu and Heng Xu and Xuelei Chen and Yuan-Pei Yang and Dong-Zi Li and Fa-Yin Wang and Chao-Wei Tsai and Wen-Fei Yu and Chen-Hui Niu and Jia-Wei Luo and Rui Luo and E. Gugercinoglu and Zi-Wei Wu and Chun-Feng Zhang and Xiang-Lei Chen and Shuai Feng and Xiang-Han Cui and Qing-Yue Qu and Yuan-Hong Qu and Bo-Jun Wang and Yi-Dan Wang and Lin Lin and Ai-Yuan Yang and Yuan-Chuan Zou and Yu-Xiang Huang and Wei-Cong Jing and Jian Li and Yong-Feng Huang and Su-Ming Weng and Shi-Han Yew and Xue-Feng Wu and Lei Zhang and Ru-Shuang Zhao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.20663},
  year   = {2026}
}