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We have detected occasional, short-lived ``echoes'' of giant pulses from the Crab pulsar. These echo events remind us of previously reported echoes from this pulsar, but they differ significantly in detail. Our echo events last at most only…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. H. Crossley , J. A. Eilek , T. H. Hankins

We present updated hard X-ray polarization measurements of the Crab pulsar and nebula obtained with the balloon-borne polarimeter XL-Calibur in the ~19-64 keV energy range. During the flight, intermittent GPS-failure resulted in poorly…

Using archival data from the 42 foot telescope at the Jodrell Bank Observatory, we produce daily stacks of aligned giant pulses for the Crab pulsar, to study changes to the daily profiles between April 2012 to December 2016. From these, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-20 Thierry Serafin Nadeau , Marten H. van Kerkwijk , Cees G. Bassa , Ben W. Stappers , Mitchell B. Mickaliger , Andrew G. Lyne

The Crab Pulsar's radio emission is unusual, consisting predominantly of giant pulses, with durations of about a micro-second but structure down to the nano-second level, and brightness temperatures of up to $10^{37}\,$K. It is unclear how…

We present a phase-dependent analysis of the polarized emission from the Crab pulsar based on three sets of observations by the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE). We found that a phenomenological model involving a simple linear…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-15 Denis González-Caniulef , Jeremy Heyl , Sergio Fabiani , Paolo Soffitta , Enrico Costa , Niccolò Bucciantini , Demet Kirmizibayrak , Fei Xie

We describe results from time-dependent numerical modeling of the collisionless reverse shock terminating the pulsar wind in the Crab Nebula. We treat the upstream relativistic wind as composed of ions and electron-positron plasma embedded…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Anatoly Spitkovsky , Jonathan Arons

We review our high-time-resolution radio observations of the Crab pulsar and compare our data to a variety of models for the emission physics. The Main Pulse and the Low-Frequency Interpulse come from regions somewhere in the high-altitude…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-22 J. A. Eilek , T. H. Hankins

The Crab pulsar experienced two relatively small glitches separated by only 20 days in September and October 2025. IXPE observed the source twice, with delay times since the glitch epoch ranging between 35 and 75 days, depending on the…

We present a new study of the X-ray spectral properties of the Crab Pulsar. The superb angular resolution of the Chandra X-ray Observatory enables distinguishing the pulsar from the surrounding nebulosity. Analysis of the spectrum as a…

Our high time resolution observations of individual pulses from the Crab pulsar show that both the time and frequency signatures of the interpulse are distinctly different from those of the main pulse. Main pulses can occasionally be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. H. Hankins , J. A. Eilek

We report observations of Crab giant pulses made with the Australia Telescope Compact Array and a baseband recorder system, made simultaneously at two frequencies, 1300 and 1470 MHz. These observations were sensitive to pulses with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. D. Ramesh Bhat , Steven J. Tingay , Haydon S. Knight

We used a new spectral-fitting technique to identify a subpopulation of 6 narrow-band giant pulses from the Crab pulsar out of a total of 1578. These giant pulses were detected in 77 minutes of observations with the 46-m dish at the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-29 Parasar Thulasiram , Hsiu-Hsien Lin

We review the results of a timing analysis of the observations for ten bright X-ray pulsars (with fluxes >100 mCrab in the 20-100 keV energy band) that fell within the INTEGRAL field of view from 2003 to 2007. The dependence of the pulse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 A. A. Lutovinov , S. S. Tsygankov

In separate series of observations of the Crab pulsar, pulse broadening due to scattering was measured at 111 MHz, and variations of dispersion due to pulse delay were measured at higher radio frequencies. In a remarkable event lasting 200…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Kuzmin , B. Ya. Losovsky , C. A. Jordan , F. Graham Smith

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…

We have carried out new, high-frequency, high-time-resolution observations of the Crab pulsar. Combining these with our previous data, we characterize bright single pulses associated with the Main Pulse, both the Low-Frequency and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-14 T. H. Hankins , J. A. Eilek , G. Jones

The Crab pulsar is well-known for its anomalous giant radio pulse emission. Past studies have concentrated only on the very bright pulses or were insensitive to the faint end of the giant pulse luminosity distribution. With our new…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 R. Karuppusamy , B. W. Stappers , W. van Straten

Time-resolved polarisation measurements of pulsars offer an unique insight into the geometry of their emission regions. Such measure\ ments provide observational constraints on the different models proposed for the pulsar emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-30 Paul Moran , Andy Shearer , Roberto Mignani , Agnieszka Słowikowska , Andrea De Luca , Christian. Gouiffès , Philippe Laurent

The remarkable Crab Nebula is powered by an energetic pulsar whose relativistic wind interacts with the inner parts of the Supernova Remnant SN1054. Despite low-intensity optical and X-ray variations in the inner Nebula, the Crab has been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-06-07 Marco Tavani

The oblique geometry of pulsar wind termination shock ensures that the Doppler beaming has a strong impact on the shock emission. We illustrate this using recent relativistic MHD simulations of the Crab Nebula and also show that the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 S. S. Komissarov , M. Lyutikov