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We have obtained 63 rotation measures (RMs) from polarization observations of southern pulsars, of which 54 are new measurements and 3 are varied from previous values. The new pulsar RM data at high Galactic latitudes are mostly consistent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. L. Han , R. N. Manchester , G. J. Qiao

The observed long-term spin-down evolution of isolated radio pulsars cannot be explained by the standard magnetic dipole radiation with a constant braking torque. However how and why the torque varies still remains controversial, which is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Yi Xie , Shuang-Nan Zhang

The Interplanetary Magnetic Field shows complex spatial and temporal variations. Single spacecraft measurements reveal only a one dimensional section of this rich four dimensional phenomenon. Multi-point measurements of the four Cluster…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Z. Németh , G. Facskó , E. A. Lucek

Studying the gravitational-wave sky with pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) is a key science goal for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) and its pathfinder telescopes. With current PTAs reaching sub-microsecond timing precision, making accurate…

Pulsars are wonderful gravitational probes. Their tiny size and stellar mass give their rotation periods a stablility comparable to that of atomic frequency standards. This is especially true of the rapidly rotating "millisecond pulsars"…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-21 R. N. Manchester

We report on slow phase variations of the response of the space-ground radio interferometer RadioAstron during observations of pulsar B0329+54. The phase variations are due to the ionosphere and clearly distinguishable from effects of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-14 M. V. Popov , N. Bartel , M. S. Burgin , T. V. Smirnova , V. A. Soglasnov

We report the experimental observation of a light polarization rotation in vacuum in the presence of a transverse magnetic field. Assuming that data distribution is Gaussian, the average measured rotation is (3.9+/-0.5)e-12 rad/pass, at 5 T…

Millisecond and binary pulsars are the most stable natural frequency standards which admits to introduce modified versions of universal and ephemeris time scales based correspondingly on the intrinsic rotation of pulsar and on its orbital…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergei M. Kopeikin , Vladimir A. Potapov

Diffractive and refractive magnetospheric scintillations may allow a direct testing of the plasma inside the light cylinder. Unusual electrodynamics of the strongly magnetized electron-positron plasma allow separation of the magnetospheric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Maxim Lyutikov

We present a robust approach to incorporating models for the time-variable broadening of the pulse profile due to scattering in the ionized interstellar medium into profile-domain pulsar timing analysis. We use this approach to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-12 L. Lentati , M. Kerr , S. Dai , R. M. Shannon , G. Hobbs , S. Oslowski

Measurements of average pulse profiles made with a single linear polarization over the range 41-112 MHz are presented for PSR B0950+08. We show that the observed variable structure of the pulse profiles is a result of Faraday sinusoidal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. V. Shabanova , Yu. P. Shitov

We develop a model for subpulse separation period, $P_2$, taking into account both the apparent motion of the visible point as a function of pulsar phase, $\psi$, and the possibility of abrupt jumps between different rotation states in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-06 R. Yuen , D. B. Melrose , M. A. Samsuddin , Z. Y. Tu , X. H. Han

We present average flux density measurements of 151 radio pulsars at 1.4 GHz with the Parkes 'Murriyang' radio telescope. We recommend our results be included in the next version of the ATNF pulsar catalogue. The large sample of pulsars…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-25 Ziyang Wang , Jingbo Wang , Na Wang , Shi Dai , Jintao Xie

We report the detection of an extreme flux decrease accompanied by clear dispersion measure (DM) and rotation measure (RM) variations for pulsar B1929+10 during the 110-minute radio observation with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-23 Zhengli Wang , Shunshun Cao , Jiguang Lu , Yulan Liu , Xun Shi , Jinchen Jiang , Enwei Liang , Weiyang Wang , Heng Xu , Renxin Xu

We have conducted radio timing observations of the eclipsing millisecond binary pulsar J2051-0827 with the European Pulsar Timing Array network of telescopes and the Parkes radio telescope, spanning over 13 years. The increased data span…

Faraday rotation provides a valuable tracer of magnetic fields in the interstellar medium; catalogs of Faraday rotation measures provide key observations for studies of the Galactic magnetic field. We present a new catalog of rotation…

Over the past 13 years, the Parkes radio telescope has observed a large number of pulsars using digital filterbank backends with high time and frequency resolution and the capability for Stokes recording. Here we use archival data to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-27 Simon Johnston , Matthew Kerr

At the highest levels of pulsar timing precision achieved to date, experiments are limited by noise intrinsic to the pulsar. This stochastic wideband impulse modulated self-noise (SWIMS) limits pulsar timing precision by randomly biasing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-23 Stefan Osłowski , Willem van Straten , Paul Demorest , Matthew Bailes

Most studies of the pulsar magnetosphere have assumed a pure magnetic dipole in flat spacetime. However, recent work suggests that the effects of general relativity are in fact of vital importance and that realistic pulsar magnetic fields…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-21 Samuel E. Gralla , Alexandru Lupsasca , Alexander Philippov

We analyze dispersion measure (DM) variations of 37 millisecond pulsars in the 9-year NANOGrav data release and constrain the sources of these variations. Variations are significant for nearly all pulsars, with characteristic timescales…