FAST Polarization Catalog of FRB 20240114A
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 20, 35.3% of the total sample), including arrival time (MJD), dispersion measure (DM), burst width (W), bandwidth, Faraday rotation measure (RM), linear and circular polarization degrees (DOL, DOC), and intrinsic polarization angle (PA). We detect a clear temporal evolution of RM: after an initial stable phase, it decreases linearly by 200 over 200 days, forming a bimodal distribution, whereas DM remains stable at 528.9 . The linear polarization fraction is generally high, with the 3 lower bound around 76%, while circular polarization is low, with 1,157 of 17,356 bursts (6.67%) having DOC 10%. We perform a power-law fit between /I and , which yields an index of . 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 PA 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}
}