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PSR J1717-4054 is one of the small class of pulsars which null on intermediate (~hour) timescales. Such pulsars represent an important link between classical nullers, whose emission vanishes for a few rotations, and the intermittent pulsars…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Matthew Kerr , George Hobbs , Ryan Shannon , Mitchell Kiczynski , Robert Hollow , Simon Johnston

Aims. To make a detailed study of the nulling and subpulse drifting in PSR J1727$-$2739 for investigation of its radiation properties. Methods. The observations were carried out on 20 March, 2004 using the Parkes 64-m radio telescope, with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-17 Z. G. Wen , N. Wang , J. P. Yuan , W. M. Yan , R. N. Manchester , R. Yuen , V. Gajjar

Periodic modulations are seen in normal period pulsars ($P >$ 0.1 sec) over timescales ranging from a few seconds to several minutes. Such modulations have usually been associated with the phenomenon of subpulse drifting. A number of recent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-12 Rahul Basu , Dipanjan Mitra , Giorgi I. Melikidze

Pulsars are unique astrophysical laboratories because of their clock-like timing precision, providing new ways to test general relativity and detect gravitational waves. One impediment to high-precision pulsar timing experiments is timing…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Rachel Rosen , Maura A. McLaughlin , Susan E. Thompson

The study of pulsar glitch phenomena serves as a valuable probe into the dynamic properties of matter under extreme high-density conditions, offering insights into the physics within neutron stars. Providing theoretical explanations for the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-07 Pei-Xin Zhu , Xiao-Ping Zheng

Pulsars are stars that emit electromagnetic radiation in well-defined time intervals. The frequency of such pulses decays with time as is quantified by the {\it braking index} ($n$). In the canonical model $n = 3$ for all pulsars, but…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-28 H. O. Oliveira , N. S. Magalhaes , R. M. Marinho , G. A. Carvalho , C. Frajuca

We have observed 123 pulsars with periods longer than 0.1 seconds in the Meterwavelength Single-pulse Polarimetric Emission Survey. In this work a detailed study of polarization behaviour of these pulsars have been carried out. We were able…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-02 Dipanjan Mitra , George I. Melikidze , Rahul Basu

It has recently been shown that there is a close correlation between the slowdown rates and the pulse shapes of six pulsars, and between the slowdown rates and the flux density of three others. This indicates that these phenomena are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Andrew Lyne

Superfluid vortex avalanches are one plausible cause of pulsar glitch activity. If they occur according to a state-dependent Poisson process, the measured long-term glitch rate is determined by the spin-down rate of the stellar crust,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-17 A. Melatos , M. Millhouse

The braking index, $n$, of a pulsar is a measure of its angular momentum loss and the value it takes corresponds to different spin-down mechanisms. For a pulsar spinning down due to gravitational wave emission from the principal mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-27 A. L. Hewitt , M. Pitkin , I. M. Hook

$\sim 6\%$ of all known pulsars have been observed to exhibit sudden spin-up events, known as glitches. For more than fifty years, these phenomena have played an important role in helping to understand pulsar (astro)physics. Based on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-28 Shiqi Zhou , Erbil Gügercinoğlu , Jianping Yuan , Mingyu Ge , Cong Yu

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

We investigate the radio emission behaviour of PSR B0823+26, a pulsar which is known to undergo pulse nulling, using an 153-d intensive sequence of observations. The pulsar is found to exhibit both short (~min) and unusually long-term…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 N. J. Young , B. W. Stappers , P. Weltevrede , A. G. Lyne , M. Kramer

In this study we propose a classification scheme for the phenomenon of subpulse drifting in pulsars. We have assembled an exhaustive list of pulsars which exhibit subpulse drifting from previously published results as well as recent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-31 Rahul Basu , Dipanjan Mitra , George I. Melikidze , Anna Skrzypczak

Pulsar glitches are the sudden increase in their spin frequency, most accompanied with a long timescale recovery process. A permanent shift would be remained in the first order derivative of spin frequency with time. Relevant data fitting…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-31 Chun Huang , Chenwei Lin , Jiachen Xie , Xiaoping Zheng

We propose that in some pulsars the magnetosphere has different states with different geometries or/and different distributions of currents, it occasionally switches between them. These states have different spindown rates and emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-11-11 A. N. Timokhin

Glitch activity refers to the mean increase in pulsar spin frequency per year due to rotational glitches. It is an important tool for studying super-nuclear matter using neutron star interiors as templates. Glitch events are typically…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-22 Innocent Okwudili Eya , Evaristus Uzochukwu Iyida

Pulsar glitches, sudden jumps in frequency in otherwise steadily spinning down radio pulsars, offer a unique glimpse into the superfluid interior of neutron stars. The exact trigger of these events remains, however, elusive and this has…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-16 Pierre Pizzochero , Marco Antonelli , Brynmor Haskell , Stefano Seveso

We report on radiation properties of extreme nulling pulsar J1502-5653, by analyzing the data acquired from the Parkes 64-m telescope at 1374 MHz. The radio emission from this pulsar exhibits sequences of several tens to several hundreds…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 J. Li , A. Esamdin , R. N. Manchester , M. F. Qian , H. B. Niu

Pulsars are rotating neutron stars that are renowned for their timing precision, although glitches can interrupt the regular timing behavior when these stars are young. Glitches are thought to be caused by interactions between normal and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-29 Wynn C. G. Ho , Cristobal M. Espinoza , Danai Antonopoulou , Nils Andersson