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We present a timing and glitch analysis of the young X-ray pulsar PSR J0537$-$6910, located within the Large Magellanic Cloud, using 13 years of data from the now decommissioned Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer. Rotating with a spin period of 16…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-31 Robert D. Ferdman , Robert F. Archibald , Konstantinos N. Gourgouliatos , Victoria M. Kaspi

PSR J0537$-$6910 is the most active glitching pulsar with a glitch rate $\sim0.3$ yr $^{-1}$. We have reanalysed 45 glitches of PSR J0537$-$6910 published in the literature and have done post-glitch timing fits within the vortex creep…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-08 Onur Akbal , Erbil Gügercinoğlu , M. Ali Alpar

We discuss the unique spin evolution of the young X-ray pulsar PSR J0537-6910, a system in which the regular spin down is interrupted by glitches every few months. Drawing on the complete timing data from the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-13 N. Andersson , D. Antonopoulou , C. M. Espinoza , B. Haskell , W. C. G. Ho

The pulsar J0537$-$6910 undergoes spin-up glitches more frequently than any other known pulsar, at a rate of roughly thrice per year. Its glitches are typically large and accompanied by spin-down rate changes $\Delta\dot\nu$ that partially…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-11 Erbil Gügercinoğlu , Onur Akbal , M. Ali Alpar , Danai Antonopoulou , Cristóbal M. Espinoza

Measuring a pulsar's rotational evolution is crucial to understanding the nature of the pulsar. Here we provide updated timing models for the rotational evolution of six pulsars, five of which are rotation phase-connected using primarily…

Pulsar glitches are unresolved increments of the rotation rate that sometimes trigger an enhancement of the spin-down rate. On occasions, the augmented spin-down decays gradually in an exponential manner, particularly after the largest…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-04 E. Zubieta , C. M. Espinoza , D. Antonopoulou , W. C. G. Ho , L. Kuiper , F. García , S. del Palacio

PSR J0537-6910, also known as the Big Glitcher, is the most prolific glitching pulsar known, and its spin-induced pulsations are only detectable in X-ray. We present results from analysis of 2.7 years of NICER timing observations, from 2017…

We report on more than 7 years of monitoring of PSR J0537-6910, the 16 ms pulsar in the Large Magellanic Cloud, using data acquired with the RXTE. During this campaign the pulsar experienced 23 sudden increases in frequency (``glitches'')…

We report on a timing programme of 74 young pulsars that have been observed by the Parkes 64-m radio telescope over the past decade. Using modern Bayesian timing techniques, we have measured the properties of 124 glitches in 52 of these…

Providing a link between magnetars and radio pulsars, high magnetic field neutron stars are ideal targets to investigate how bursting/magnetospheric activity and braking torque variations are connected to rotational glitches. The last…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 D. Antonopoulou , P. Weltevrede , C. M. Espinoza , A. L. Watts , S. Johnston , R. M. Shannon , M. Kerr

The rotation of more than 700 pulsars has been monitored using the 76-m Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank. Here we report on a new search for glitches in the observations, revealing 128 new glitches in the rotation of 63 pulsars. Combining…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-18 Cristobal M. Espinoza , Andrew G. Lyne , Ben W. Stappers , Michael Kramer

The close correlation observed between emission state and spin-down rate change of pulsars has many implications both for the magnetospheric physics and the neutron star interior. The middle-aged pulsar PSR J0738$-$4042, which had been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-23 S. Q. Zhou , E. Gügercinoğlu , J. P. Yuan , M. Y. Ge , C. Yu , C. M. Zhang , J. Zhang , Z. W. Feng , C. Q. Ye

We report the detection of a sudden spin-up of the 11 s anomalous X-ray pulsar 1RXS J170849.0-4000910 in regular timing observations made with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer. The event, which occurred between MJD 51446 (1999 September 25)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 V. M. Kaspi , J. R. Lackey , D. Chakrabarty

We present new timing models and update our previous ones for the rotational evolution of seven young energetic pulsars, including four of the top five in spin-down luminosity Edot among all known pulsars. For each of the six pulsars that…

Glitches are rare spin-up events that punctuate the smooth slow-down of the rotation of pulsars. For the Vela pulsar and PSR J0537-6910, the glitch sizes and the times between consecutive events have clear preferred scales, contrary to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-02 J. R. Fuentes , C. M. Espinoza , A. Reisenegger

Through a detailed timing analysis of $\textit{Fermi}$-LAT data, the rotational behavior of the $\gamma$-ray pulsar PSR J1522$-$5735 was tracked from August 2008 (MJD 54692) to January 2024 (MJD 60320). During this 15.4-year period, two…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-12 S. Q. Zhou , W. T. Ye , M. Y. Ge , E. GügercinoğLu , S. J. Zheng , C. Yu , J. P. Yuan , J. Zhang

We present a new phase-coherent timing analysis for the young, energetic pulsar PSR B0540-69 using 7.6 yr of data from the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer. We measure the braking index, n=2.140+/-0.009, and discuss our measurement in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Margaret A. Livingstone , Victoria M. Kaspi , Fotis P. Gavriil

We present timing solutions and spin properties of the young pulsar PSR B0540-69 from analysis of 15.8 yr of data from the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer. We perform a partially phase-coherent timing analysis in order to mitigate the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-21 Robert D. Ferdman , Robert F. Archibald , Victoria M. Kaspi

Pulsar glitch is a phenomenon characterized by abrupt changes in the spin period over less than a minute. We present a comprehensive analysis of glitches in four gamma-ray pulsars by combining the timing observation data from \textit{Fermi}…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-17 P. Liu , J. -P. Yuan , M. -Y. Ge , W. -T. Ye , S. -Q. Zhou , S. -J. Dang , Z. -R. Zhou , E. Gügercinoğlu , Z. H. Tu , P. Wang , A. Li , D. Li , N. Wang

Pulsar glitches are rapid spin-up events that occur in the rotation of neutron stars, providing a valuable probe into the physics of the interiors of these objects. Long-term monitoring of a large number of pulsars facilitates the detection…

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