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Gravitational wave astronomy using a pulsar timing array requires high-quality millisecond pulsars, correctable interstellar propagation delays, and high-precision measurements of pulse times of arrival. Here we identify noise in timing…

Pulsar timing uses the highly stable pulsar spin period to investigate many astrophysical topics. In particular, pulsar timing arrays make use of a set of extremely well-timed pulsars and their time correlations as a challenging detector of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-16 Michele Maiorano , Francesco De Paolis , Achille A. Nucita

We report long-term scintillation observations of 18 pulsars in the DM range 3-35 pc cm^{-3} carried out during 1993-1995 using the Ooty Radio Telescope at 327 MHz. These observations were made with the aim of studying refractive effects in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 N. D. Ramesh Bhat , A. Pramesh Rao , Yashwant Gupta

We present radio timing measurements of six rotating radio transient (RRAT) sources discovered in the Parkes Multibeam Pulsar Survey. These provide four new phase-connected timing solutions and two updated ones, making a total of seven of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 M. A. McLaughlin , A. G. Lyne , E. F. Keane , M. Kramer , J. J. Miller , D. R. Lorimer , R. N. Manchester , F. Camilo , I. H. Stairs

Pulse profile stability in millisecond pulsars (MSPs) is a key factor in achieving high-precision timing essential for detecting nanohertz gravitational waves with Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs). In this work, we present a systematic analysis…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-17 Ankita Ghosh , Bhaswati Bhattacharyya , Rahul Sharan , Patrick Weltevrede , Jayanta Roy , Sangita Kumari

The rotating radio transients are sporadic pulsars which are difficult to detect through periodicity searches. By using a single-pulse search method, we can discover these sources, measure their periods, and determine timing solutions. Here…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-06 Bingyi Cui , Jason Boyles , Maura McLaughlin , Nipuni Palliyaguru

The frequency dependence of radio pulse arrival times provides a probe of structures in the intervening media. Demorest et al. 2013 was the first to show a short-term (~100-200 days) reduction in the electron content along the line of sight…

The stability of the optical pulse of the Crab pulsar is analyzed based on the 1 $\mu$s resolution observations with the Russian 6-meter and William Hershel telescopes equipped with different photon-counting detectors. The search for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-09-18 S. Karpov , G. Beskin , A. Biryukov , V. Plokhotnichenko , V. Debur , A. Shearer

Pulsar's position, proper motion and parallax are important parameters in timing equations. It is a really challenging work to fit astrometric parameters accurately through pulsar timing, especially for pulsars that show irregular timing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-08 Jie Liu , Zhen Yan , Zhi-Qiang Shen , Zhi-Peng Huang , Ru-Shuang Zhao , Ya-Jun Wu , Jian-Ping Yuan , Xin-Ji Wu

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

We present timing solutions and analyses of 11 pulsars discovered by the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). These pulsars were discovered using an ultra-wide bandwidth receiver in drift-scan observations made…

A large sample of pulsars was observed as part of the Meterwavelength Single-pulse Polarimetric Emission Survey. We carried out a detailed fluctuation spectral analysis which revealed periodic features in 46% pulsars including 22 pulsars…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-14 Rahul Basu , Dipanjan Mitra , George I. Melikidze , Krzysztof Maciesiak , Anna Skrzypczak , Andrzej Szary

We have measured variations in scattering time scales in the Crab Pulsar over a 30-year period, using observations made at 610 MHz with the 42-ft telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory. Over more recent years, where regular Lovell Telescope…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-18 J. W. McKee , A. G. Lyne , B. W. Stappers , C. G. Bassa , C. A. Jordan

The distribution of waiting times between successive tunneling events is an already established method to characterize current fluctuations in mesoscopic systems. Here, I investigate mechanisms generating correlations between subsequent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-23 Krzysztof Ptaszynski

Context. Pulsars have a very stable rotation. However, sudden increases in their rotation frequency known as glitches, perturb their evolution. While large glitches are commonly detected, small glitches are harder to detect because of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-26 E. Zubieta , F. Garcia , S. del Palacio , S. B. Araujo Furlan , G. Gancio , C. O. Lousto , J. A. Combi , C. M. Espinoza

Stochastic temporal wandering of the spin frequency $\nu$ of a rotation-powered pulsar (i.e.~the achromatic component of timing noise unrelated to interstellar propagation) affects the accuracy with which the secular braking torque can be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-17 Andrés F. Vargas , Andrew Melatos

Observations of pulsars across the radio spectrum are revealing a dependence of the characteristic scattering time ($\tau$) on frequency, which is more complex than the simple power law with a theoretically predicted power law index. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-04 Marisa Geyer , Aris Karastergiou

Single pulses preserve information about the pulsar radio emission and propagation in the pulsar magnetosphere, and understanding the behaviour of their variability is essential for estimating the fundamental limit on the achievable pulsar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-21 K. Liu , C. G. Bassa , G. H. Janssen , R. Karuppusamy , J. McKee , M. Kramer , K. J. Lee , D. Perrodin , M. Purver , S. Sanidas , R. Smits , B. W. Stappers , P. Weltevrede , W. W. Zhu

The long-term rotational evolution of the old, isolated pulsar, PSR B0950+08 is intriguing in that its spin-down rate displays sinusoidal-like oscillations due to alternating variations, both in magnitude and sign, of the second time…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-15 Erbil Gügercinoğlu , Elif Köksal , Tolga Güver