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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

We use data from the MeerTime project on the MeerKAT telescope to ask whether the radio emission properties of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) and slowly rotating, younger pulsars (SPs) are similar or different. We show that the flux density…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-10 A. Karastergiou , S. Johnston , B. Posselt , L. S. Oswald , M. Kramer , P. Weltevrede

The behaviour of the pulsar spectrum at high radio frequencies can provide decisive information about the nature of the radio emission mechanism. We report recent observations of a selected sample of pulsars at lambda=9mm (32 GHz) with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 O. Loehmer , A. Jessner , M. Kramer , R. Wielebinksi , O. Maron

We present the discovery of PSR J0250+5854, a radio pulsar with a spin period of 23.5 s. This is the slowest-spinning radio pulsar known. PSR J0250+5854 was discovered by the LOFAR Tied-Array All-Sky Survey (LOTAAS), an all-Northern-sky…

Single-pulse studies are important to understand the pulsar emission mechanism and the noise floor in precision timing. We study total intensity and polarimetry properties of three bright millisecond pulsars - PSRs J1022+1001, J1713+0747,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-18 N. T. Palliyaguru , B. B. P. Perera , M. A. McLaughlin , S. Oslowski , G. L. Siebert

We have observed the relativistic binary pulsar PSR J1141$-$6545 over a period of $\sim$6 years using the Parkes 64 m radio telescope, with a focus on modelling the diffractive intensity scintillations to improve the accuracy of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-20 D. J. Reardon , W. A. Coles , G. Hobbs , S. Ord , M. Kerr , M. Bailes , N. D. R. Bhat , V. Venkatraman Krishnan

We have searched 92 unidentified sources from the FIRST and NVSS 1400 MHz radio survey catalogs for radio pulsations at 610 MHz. The selected radio sources are bright, have no identification with extragalactic objects, are point-like and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Fronefield Crawford , Victoria M. Kaspi , Jon F. Bell

Broadband radio waves emitted from pulsars are distorted and delayed as they propagate toward the Earth due to interactions with the free electrons that compose the interstellar medium, with lower radio frequencies being more impacted than…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-12 Olivia Young , Michael Lam

We present the discovery of six millisecond pulsars (MSPs) in the High Time Resolution Universe (HTRU) survey for pulsars and fast transients carried out with the Parkes radio telescope. All six are in binary systems with approximately…

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…

Pulsar timing arrays provide a unique means to detect nanohertz gravitational waves through long-term measurements of pulse arrival times from an ensemble of millisecond pulsars. After years of observations, some timing array pulsars have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-30 Boris Goncharov , Xing-Jiang Zhu , Eric Thrane

We present 15 years of Nan\c{c}ay and Green Bank radio telescope timing observations for PSR J1231$-$1411. This millisecond pulsar is a primary science target for the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer telescope (NICER, which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-02 H. Thankful Cromartie , Matthew Kerr , Scott M. Ransom , Paul S. Ray , Lucas Guillemot , Ismaël Cognard , Emmanuel Fonseca , Gilles Theureau

Context. The spatially coherent multipath propagation of pulsar radiation leads to a temporal and spectral interference patterns called scintillation. It is caused by density variations in the ionized interstellar medium, which often take…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-15 Tim Sprenger , Xun Shi , Olaf Wucknitz , Robert A. Main

In this paper we present the first observations of a large sample of millisecond pulsars at frequencies of 2.7 GHz and 4.9 GHz. Our new flux measurements extend the known spectra for millisecond pulsars to the highest frequencies to date.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Kramer , C. Lange , D. R. Lorimer , D. C. Backer , K. M. Xilouris , A. Jessner , R. Wielebinski

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) are Galactic-scale nanohertz-frequency gravitational wave (GW) detectors. Recently, several PTAs have found evidence for the presence of GWs in their datasets, but none of them have achieved a community-defined…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-06 Pratyasha Gitika , Ryan M. Shannon , Matthew Bailes , Daniel J. Reardon , Matthew T. Miles , David J. Champion , Kathrin Grunthal

We present radio observation of a millisecond pulsar PSR J0621+1002 using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). The pulsar shows periodic pulse intensity modulations for both the first and the third pulse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-02 S. Q. Wang , J. B. Wang , N. Wang , Y. Feng , S. B. Zhang , K. J. Lee , D. Li , J. G. Lu , J. T. Xie , D. J. Zhou , L. Zhang

We analyze 24 binary radio pulsars in the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) nine-year data set. We make fourteen significant measurements of Shapiro delay, including new detections in four pulsar-binary…

We report the discovery of the millisecond pulsar PSR J2043+1711 in a search of a Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) source with no known associations, with the Nancay Radio Telescope. The new pulsar, confirmed with the Green Bank Telescope,…

We present the Multifrequency Snapshot Sky Survey (MSSS), the first northern-sky LOFAR imaging survey. In this introductory paper, we first describe in detail the motivation and design of the survey. Compared to previous radio surveys, MSSS…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-04 G. H. Heald , R. F. Pizzo , E. Orrú , R. P. Breton , D. Carbone , C. Ferrari , M. J. Hardcastle , W. Jurusik , G. Macario , D. Mulcahy , D. Rafferty , A. Asgekar , M. Brentjens , R. A. Fallows , W. Frieswijk , M. C. Toribio , B. Adebahr , M. Arts , M. R. Bell , A. Bonafede , J. Bray , J. Broderick , T. Cantwell , P. Carroll , Y. Cendes , A. O. Clarke , J. Croston , S. Daiboo , F. de Gasperin , J. Gregson , J. Harwood , T. Hassall , V. Heesen , A. Horneffer , A. J. van der Horst , M. Iacobelli , V. Jelić , D. Jones , D. Kant , G. Kokotanekov , P. Martin , J. P. McKean , L. K. Morabito , B. Nikiel-Wroczyński , A. Offringa , V. N. Pandey , M. Pandey-Pommier , M. Pietka , L. Pratley , C. Riseley , A. Rowlinson , J. Sabater , A. M. M. Scaife , L. H. A. Scheers , K. Sendlinger , A. Shulevski , M. Sipior , C. Sobey , A. J. Stewart , A. Stroe , J. Swinbank , C. Tasse , J. Trüstedt , E. Varenius , S. van Velzen , N. Vilchez , R. J. van Weeren , S. Wijnholds , W. L. Williams , A. G. de Bruyn , R. Nijboer , M. Wise , A. Alexov , J. Anderson , I. M. Avruch , R. Beck , M. E. Bell , I. van Bemmel , M. J. Bentum , G. Bernardi , P. Best , F. Breitling , W. N. Brouw , M. Brüggen , H. R. Butcher , B. Ciardi , J. E. Conway , E. de Geus , A. de Jong , M. de Vos , A. Deller , R. J. Dettmar , S. Duscha , J. Eislöffel , D. Engels , H. Falcke , R. Fender , M. A. Garrett , J. Grießmeier , A. W. Gunst , J. P. Hamaker , J. W. T. Hessels , M. Hoeft , J. Hörandel , H. A. Holties , H. Intema , N. J. Jackson , E. Jütte , A. Karastergiou , W. F. A. Klijn , V. I. Kondratiev , L. V. E. Koopmans , M. Kuniyoshi , G. Kuper , C. Law , J. van Leeuwen , M. Loose , P. Maat , S. Markoff , R. McFadden , D. McKay-Bukowski , M. Mevius , J. C. A. Miller-Jones , R. Morganti , H. Munk , A. Nelles , J. E. Noordam , M. J. Norden , H. Paas , A. G. Polatidis , W. Reich , A. Renting , H. Röttgering , A. Schoenmakers , D. Schwarz , J. Sluman , O. Smirnov , B. W. Stappers , M. Steinmetz , M. Tagger , Y. Tang , S. ter Veen , S. Thoudam , R. Vermeulen , C. Vocks , C. Vogt , R. A. M. J. Wijers , O. Wucknitz , S. Yatawatta , P. Zarka

LOFAR offers the unique capability of observing pulsars across the 10-240 MHz frequency range with a fractional bandwidth of roughly 50%. This spectral range is well-suited for studying the frequency evolution of pulse profile morphology…