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We report here on the timing of 597 pulsars over the last four years with the MeerKAT telescope. We provide Times-of-Arrival, pulsar ephemeris files and per-epoch measurements of the flux density, dispersion measure (DM) and rotation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-03 M. J. Keith , S. Johnston , A. Karastergiou , P. Weltevrede , M. E. Lower , A. Basu , B. Posselt , L. S. Oswald , A. Parthasarathy , A. D. Cameron , M. Serylak , S. Buchner

The standard formula for the rotation measure, RM, which determines the position angle, $\psi={\rm RM}\lambda^2$, due to Faraday rotation, includes contributions only from the portions of the ray path where the natural modes of the plasma…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 D. B. Melrose

The ionosphere contributes time-varying Faraday Rotation (FR) to radio signals passing through it. Correction for the effect of the ionosphere is important for deriving magnetic field information from FR observations of polarized cosmic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-08 J. B. Malins , S. M. White , G. B. Taylor , K. Stovall , J Dowell

Pulsars are known to display short-term variability. Recently, examples of longer-term emission variability have emerged that are often correlated with changes in the rotational properties of the pulsar. To further illuminate this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-27 P. R. Brook , A. Karastergiou , S. Johnston , M. Kerr , R. M. Shannon , S. J. Roberts

Timing of highly stable millisecond pulsars provides the possibility of independently verifying terrestrial time scales on intervals longer than a year. An ensemble pulsar time scale is constructed based on pulsar timing data obtained on…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-19 Alexander Rodin , Viktoriya Fedorova

The inclination angle $\chi$ between magnetic and rotation axes of pulsars is an important parameter in pulsar physics. The changes in the inclination angle of a pulsar would lead to observable effects, such as changes in the pulse beam…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-24 Biao-Peng Li , Zhi-Fu Gao

Pulsars are rotating neutron stars which emit lighthouse-like beams. Owing to their unique properties, pulsars are a unique astrophysical tool to test general relativity, inform on matter at extreme densities, and probe galactic magnetic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-24 Renaud Gueroult , Yuan Shi , Jean-Marcel Rax , Nathaniel J. Fisch

Millisecond pulsars are intrinsically very stable clocks and precise measurement of their observed pulse periods can be used to study a wide variety of astrophysical phenomena. In particular, observations of a large sample of millisecond…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 R. N. Manchester

We analyze deterministic and random temporal variations in dispersion measure (DM) from the full three-dimensional velocities of pulsars with respect to the solar system, combined with electron-density variations on a wide range of length…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-29 Michael T. Lam , James M. Cordes , Shami Chatterjee , Megan L. Jones , Maura A. McLaughlin , John W. Armstrong

We demonstrate how observations of pulsars can be used to help navigate a spacecraft travelling in the solar system. We make use of archival observations of millisecond pulsars from the Parkes radio telescope in order to demonstrate the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 X. P. Deng , G. Hobbs , X. P. You , M. T. Li , M. J. Keith , R. M. Shannon , W. Coles , R. N. Manchester , J. H. Zheng , X. Z. Yu , D. Gao , X. Wu , D. Chen

Using commissioning data from the first year of operation of the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment's (CHIME) Pulsar backend system, we conduct a systematic analysis of the Faraday Rotation Measure (RM) of the northern…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-17 C. Ng , A. Pandhi , A. Naidu , E. Fonseca , V. M. Kaspi , K. W. Masui , R. Mckinven , A. Renard , P. Scholz , I. H. Stairs , S. P. Tendulkar , K. Vanderlinde

Detection and study of gravitational waves from astrophysical sources is a major goal of current astrophysics. Ground-based laser-interferometer systems such as LIGO and VIRGO are sensitive to gravitational waves with frequencies of order…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 R. N. Manchester

Signals from radio pulsars show a wavelength-dependent delay due to dispersion in the interstellar plasma. At a typical observing wavelength, this delay can vary by tens of microseconds on five-year time scales, far in excess of signals of…

Mean pulse profiles and polarization properties are presented for nine southern pulsars. The observations were made using the Parkes radio telescope at frequencies near 1330 MHz; three of the nine pulsars were also observed at 660 MHz. A…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R N Manchester , J L Han

We study the polarization properties of 22 known rotating radio transients (RRATs) with the 64-m Parkes radio telescope and present the Faraday rotation measures (RMs) for the 17 with linearly polarized flux exceeding the off-pulse noise by…

We present an analysis of the rotation measures (RMs) of polarized extragalactic point sources in the Southern Galactic Plane Survey. This work demonstrates that the statistics of fluctuations in RM differ for the spiral arms and the…

We present high signal-to-noise ratio, multi-frequency polarization pulse profiles for 24 millisecond pulsars that are being observed as part of the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array (PPTA) project. The pulsars are observed in three bands, centred…

The highly stable spin of neutron stars can be exploited for a variety of (astro-)physical investigations. In particular arrays of pulsars with rotational periods of the order of milliseconds can be used to detect correlated signals such as…