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Detection of a glitch in the pulsar J1709-4429

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2018-08-09 v1

Abstract

We report the detection of a glitch event in the pulsar J1709-4429 (also known as B1706-44) during regular monitoring observations with the Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope (UTMOST). The glitch was found during timing operations, in which we regularly observe over 400 pulsars with up to daily cadence, while commensally searching for Rotating Radio Transients, pulsars, and FRBs. With a fractional size of Δν/ν52.4×109\Delta\nu/\nu \approx 52.4 \times10^{-9}, the glitch reported here is by far the smallest known for this pulsar, attesting to the efficacy of glitch searches with high cadence using UTMOST.

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@article{arxiv.1808.02580,
  title  = {Detection of a glitch in the pulsar J1709-4429},
  author = {Marcus E. Lower and Chris Flynn and Matthew Bailes and Ewan D. Barr and Timothy Bateman and Shivani Bhandari and Manisha Caleb and Duncan Campbell-Wilson and Cherie Day and Adam Deller and Wael Farah and Anne J. Green and Vivek Gupta and Richard W. Hunstead and Andrew Jameson and Fabian Jankowski and Evan F. Keane and Vivek Venkatraman Krishnan and Stefan Osłowski and Aditya Parthasarathy and Kathryn Plant and Danny C. Price and Vikram Ravi and Ryan M. Shannon and David Temby and Glen Torr and Glenn Urquhart},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.02580},
  year   = {2018}
}

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3 pages, 1 figure