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The algorithm of the ensemble pulsar time scale (PT$_{\rm ens}$) based on the optimal Wiener filtration method has been proposed. This algorithm allows the separation of the contributions to the post-fit pulsar timing residuals of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-20 Alexander E. Rodin

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

Precision pulsar timing can be used for a variety of astrophysical tests from the detection of gravitational waves to probing the properties of the interstellar medium (ISM). Here we present analyses of the noise contributions to pulsar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-20 Brent J. Shapiro-Albert , Maura A. McLaughlin , Michael T. Lam , James M. Cordes , Joe K. Swiggum

We present the first measurement of pulse scattering close to the eclipse region of PSR B1957+20, which is in a compact binary system with a low-mass star. We measured pulse scattering time-scales up to 0.2 ms close to the eclipse and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-20 J. T. Bai , S. Dai , Q. J. Zhi , W. A. Coles , D. Li , W. W. Zhu , G. Hobbs , G. J. Qiao , N. Wang , J. P. Yuan , M. D. Filipovic , J. B. Wang , Z. C. Pan , L. H. Shang , S. J. Dang , S. Q. Wang , C. C. Miao

We present here the results from an extensive scintillation study of twenty pulsars in the dispersion measure (DM) range 3 - 35 pc cm^-3 carried out using the Ooty Radio Telescope, to investigate the distribution of ionized material in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 N. D. Ramesh Bhat , Yashwant Gupta , A. Pramesh Rao

Pulsars in the Galactic centre promise to enable unparalleled tests of gravity theories and black hole physics and to serve as probes of the stellar formation history and evolution and the interstellar medium in the complex central region…

We analyze the waiting time distribution of time distances $\tau$ between two nearest-neighbor flares. This analysis is based on the joint use of two distinct techniques. The first is the direct evaluation of the distribution function…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Paolo Grigolini , Deborah Leddon , Nicola Scafetta

In this paper we introduce a new Python package, the Pulsar Signal Simulator, or PsrSigSim, which is designed to simulate a pulsar signal from emission at the pulsar, through the interstellar medium, to observation by a radio telescope, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-31 Brent J. Shapiro-Albert , Jeffrey S. Hazboun , Maura A. McLaughlin , Michael T. Lam

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-timescale radio transients, the origins of which are predominantly extragalactic and likely involve highly magnetized compact objects. FRBs undergo multipath propagation, or scattering, from electron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-14 S. K. Ocker , J. M. Cordes , S. Chatterjee , D. Li , C. H. Niu , J. W. McKee , C. J. Law , R. Anna-Thomas

We have shown previously that a broad correlation between the peak radio luminosity and the variability time-scales, approximately L ~ t^5, exists for variable synchrotron emitting sources and that different classes of astrophysical source…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-30 M. Pietka , T. D. Staley , M. L. Pretorius , R. P. Fender

The survey of northern hemisphere were made at a frequency of 111 MHz. The total accumulation time at each point of the sky was at least one hour. 75 sources of pulse emission were detected. More then 80% of these sources are known pulsars…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-12 S. A. Tyul'bashev , M. A. Kitaeva , S. V. Logvinenko , G. E. Tyul'basheva

We present an algorithm for the simultaneous measurement of a pulse time-of-arrival (TOA) and dispersion measure (DM) from folded wideband pulsar data. We extend the prescription from Taylor (1992) to accommodate a general two-dimensional…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-04 Timothy T. Pennucci , Paul B. Demorest , Scott M. Ransom

We derive the Sun's offset from the local mean Galactic plane($z_\odot$) using the observed $z$ distribution of young pulsars. Pulsar distances are obtained from measurements of annual parallax, HI absorption spectra or associations where…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-03 J. M. Yao , R. N. Manchester , N. Wang

We present the pulse arrival times and high-precision dispersion measure estimates for 14 millisecond pulsars observed simultaneously in the 300-500 MHz and 1260-1460 MHz frequency bands using the upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope…

In our previous paper, we developed a technique for identifying pulsar candidates in interferometric radio images using their distinctive scintillation signatures. Building on this technique, the present study simulates a pulsar population…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-06 Jitendra Salal , Shriharsh P. Tendulkar , Visweshwar Ram Marthi

The Parkes multibeam pulsar survey is a sensitive survey of a strip along the Galactic plane with |b|<5 deg and l=260 deg to l=50 deg. It uses a 13-beam receiver on the 64-m Parkes radio telescope, receiving two polarisations per beam over…

We present average flux density measurements of 151 radio pulsars at 1.4 GHz with the Parkes 'Murriyang' radio telescope. We recommend our results be included in the next version of the ATNF pulsar catalogue. The large sample of pulsars…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-25 Ziyang Wang , Jingbo Wang , Na Wang , Shi Dai , Jintao Xie

Free electrons in the interstellar medium cause frequency-dependent delays in pulse arrival times due to both scattering and dispersion. Multi-frequency measurements are used to estimate and remove dispersion delays. In this paper, we focus…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 M. T. Lam , J. M. Cordes , S. Chatterjee , T. Dolch

Pulsar searches are computationally demanding efforts to discover dispersed periodic signals in time- and frequency-resolved data from radio telescopes. The complexity and computational expense of simultaneously determining the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-14 Lars Künkel , Rajat M. Thomas , Joris P. W. Verbiest

Radio wave scattering can cause severe reductions in detection sensitivity for surveys of Galactic and extragalactic fast ($\sim$ms duration) transients. While Galactic sources like pulsars undergo scattering in the Milky Way interstellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-03 S. K. Ocker , J. M. Cordes , S. Chatterjee , M. R. Gorsuch