The Deep Space Network (DSN) is a worldwide array of radio telescopes that supports NASA's interplanetary spacecraft missions. When the DSN antennas are not communicating with spacecraft, they provide a valuable resource for performing observations of radio magnetars, searches for new pulsars at the Galactic Center, and additional pulsar-related studies. We describe the DSN's capabilities for carrying out these types of observations. We also present results from observations of three radio magnetars, PSR J1745-2900, PSR J1622-4950, and XTE J1810-197, and the transitional magnetar candidate, PSR J1119-6127, using the DSN radio telescopes near Canberra, Australia.
@article{arxiv.1902.10712,
title = {Observations of Radio Magnetars with the Deep Space Network},
author = {Aaron B. Pearlman and Walid A. Majid and Thomas A. Prince},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.10712},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
14 pages, 8 figures, Accepted for publication in Advances in Astronomy on 2019 January 27 (Invited paper for a special issue on magnetars)