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A unique transient bursting radio source, GCRT J1745-3009, has been discovered (Hyman et al. 2005a) near the direction of the Galactic center. It is still an open question to explain this phenomenon, although some efforts to understand its…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-24 W. W. Zhu , R. X. Xu

We demonstrate that the high-magnetic field pulsar J1119-6127 exhibits three different types of behaviour in the radio band. Trailing the "normal" profile peak there is an "intermittent" peak and these components are flanked by two…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Patrick Weltevrede , Simon Johnston , Cristobal M. Espinoza

The extreme timing stability of radio millisecond pulsars (MSPs) combined with their exotic environment and evolutionary history makes them excellent laboratories to probe matter in extreme condition. Population studies indicate that we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-06 Bhaswati Bhattacharyya , Jayanta Roy

Anomalous X-ray Pulsars (AXPs), thought to be magnetars, exhibit poorly understood deviations from a simple spin-down called "timing noise". AXP timing noise has strong low-frequency components which pose significant challenges for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Anne M. Archibald , Rim Dib , Margaret A. Livingstone , Victoria M. Kaspi

Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) experiments exploit the clock-like behaviour of an array of millisecond pulsars, with the goal of detecting low-frequency gravitational waves. PTA experiments have been in operation over the last decade, led by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-28 Caterina Tiburzi

Here we report on a new survey for pulsars and transients in the 10 pc region around Sgr A* using the Effelsberg radio telescope at frequencies between 4 to 8 GHz. Our calibrated full-Stokes data were searched for pulsars and transients…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-11 G. Desvignes , R. P. Eatough , Y. Men , F. Abbate , R. Karuppusamy , M. Kramer , K. Liu , L. Shao , P. Torne , R. S. Wharton

Ongoing research on Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) to detect gravitational radiation is reviewed. Here, we discuss the use of millisecond pulsars as a gravitational wave detector, the sources of gravitational radiation detectable by PTAs and the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-23 Pravin Kumar Dahal

In addition to fast radio burst (FRB) searches carried out using dedicated surveys, a number of radio observatories take advantage of commensal opportunities with large facilities in which observations for other projects can be searched for…

Rotation-powered pulsars are excellent laboratories for study of particle acceleration as well as fundamental physics of strong gravity, strong magnetic fields, high densities and relativity. I will review the outstanding questions in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Alice K. Harding

We explain some phenomena existing generally in the timing residuals: amplitude and sign of the second derivative of a pulsar's spin-frequency ($\ddot\nu$), some sophisticated residual patterns, which also change with the time span of data…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-27 Xu-Dong Gao , Shuang-Nan Zhang , Shu-Xu Yi , Yi Xie , Jian-Ning Fu

We have analyzed 5.5 years of timing observations of 7 'slowly' rotating radio pulsars, made with the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope. We present improved timing solutions and 30, mostly small, new glitches. Particularly interesting…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 G. H. Janssen , B. W. Stappers

Magnetars are slowly rotating, highly magnetized young neutron stars that can show transient radio phenomena for radio pulses and fast radio bursts. We conducted radio observations of from two magnetars SGR$~$J1935+2154 and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-03 Lang Xie , J. L. Han , Z. L. Yang , W. C. Jing , D. J. Zhou , W. Q. Su , Yi Yan , Tao Wang , N. N. Cai , P. F. Wang , Chen Wang

The Green Bank Telescope (GBT) is the largest fully steerable radio telescope in the world and is one of our greatest tools for discovering and studying radio pulsars. Over the last decade, the GBT has successfully found over 100 new…

Millisecond pulsars in tight binaries have recently opened new challenges in our understanding of physical processes governing the evolution of binaries and the interaction between astrophysical plasma and electromagnetic fields.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-22 Alessandro Papitto , Domitilla de Martino

The radio millisecond pulsar PSR J1023+0038 exhibits complex timing and eclipse behavior. Here we analyze four years' worth of radio monitoring observations of this object. We obtain a long-term timing solution, albeit with large residual…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-11-21 Anne M. Archibald , Victoria M. Kaspi , Jason W. T. Hessels , Ben Stappers , Gemma Janssen , Andrew Lyne

A few members of the recently discovered class of long-period transients have been identified as binaries with white-dwarf primaries. In most cases, however, electromagnetic data are inconclusive, and isolated magnetars or compact binaries…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-09 Arthur G. Suvorov , Clara Dehman , José A. Pons

The sensitivity and field of view of the MeerKAT radio telescope provides excellent opportunities for commensal transient searches. We carry out a commensal transient search in supernova and short gamma-ray burst fields using methodologies…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-24 S. I. Chastain , A. J. van der Horst , A. Horesh , A. Rowlinson , A. Andersson , R. Diretse , M. Vaccari , R. P. Fender , P. A. Woudt

We provide an analysis of timing irregularities observed for 366 pulsars. Observations were obtained using the 76-m Lovell radio telescope at the Jodrell Bank Observatory over the past 36 years. These data sets have allowed us to carry out…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 G. Hobbs , A. G. Lyne , M. Kramer

The fast Fourier transform (FFT) based periodicity search methods provide an efficient way to search for millisecond and binary pulsars but encounter significant sensitivity degradation while searching for long period and short duty cycle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-22 Shubham Singh , Jayanta Roy , Bhaswati Bhattacharyya , Ujjwal Panda , Benjamin W. Stappers , Maura A. McLaughlin

We have completed a 350 MHz drift scan survey using the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope with the goal of finding new radio pulsars, especially millisecond pulsars that can be timed to high precision. This survey covered ~10300 square…