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Observed glitches in 8 young pulsars

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2020-01-08 v2

Abstract

The abrupt change in the pulse period of a pulsar is called a pulsar glitch. In this paper, we present eleven pulsar glitches detected using the Ooty Radio Telescope (ORT) and the upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (uGMRT) in high cadence timing observations of 8 pulsars. The measured relative amplitude of glitches (Δν/ν\Delta \nu/\nu) from our data ranges from 10610^{-6} to 10910^{-9}. Among these glitches, three are new discoveries, being reported for the first time. We also reanalyze the largest pulsar glitch in the Crab pulsar (PSR J0534+2200) by fitting the ORT data to a new phenomenological model including the slow rise in the post-glitch evolution. We measure an exponential recovery of 30 days after the Vela glitch detected on MJD 57734 with a healing factor Q=5.8×103Q=5.8\times 10^{-3}. Further, we report the largest glitch (Δν/ν=3147.9×109\Delta \nu/\nu = 3147.9 \times 10^{-9}) so far in PSR J1731-4744.

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@article{arxiv.1911.04934,
  title  = {Observed glitches in 8 young pulsars},
  author = {Avishek Basu and Bhal Chandra Joshi and M. A. Krishnakumar and Dipankar Bhattacharya and Rana Nandi and Debades Bandyopadhyay and Prasanta Char and P. K. Manoharan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.04934},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

11 pages, 12 figures, 3 tables; Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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