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Radio pulsar glitches probe far-from-equilibrium processes involving stress accumulation and relaxation in neutron star interiors. Previous studies of glitch rates have focused on individual pulsars with as many recorded glitches as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-07 Margaret Millhouse , Andrew Melatos , George Howitt , Julian B. Carlin , Liam Dunn , Gregory Ashton

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

Simultaneous observations at four different frequencies viz. 313, 607, 1380 and 4850 MHz, for three pulsars, PSRs B0031-07, B0809+74 and B2319+60, are reported in this paper. Identified null and burst pulses are highly concurrent across…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Vishal Gajjar , Bhal Chandra Joshi , Michael Kramer , Ramesh Karuppusamy , Roy Smits

Pulsar-timing datasets have been analyzed with great success using probabilistic treatments based on Gaussian distributions, with applications ranging from studies of neutron-star structure to tests of general relativity and searches for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-01 Michele Vallisneri , Rutger van Haasteren

We calculate detailed modification of pulses from a pulsar arising from the effects of phase transition induced density fluctuations on the pulsar moment of inertia. We represent general statistical density fluctuations using a simple model…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-27 Partha Bagchi , Biswanath Layek , Anjishnu Sarkar , Ajit M. Srivastava

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

We report on the unique nulling properties of PSR B0818-41, using the GMRT at 325 and 610 MHz. We find following interesting behaviour just before and after the nulls: (i) The pulsar's intensity does not switch off abruptly at the null, but…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Bhaswati Bhattacharyya , Yashwant Gupta , Janusz Gil

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

Combining information from weak sources, such as known pulsars, for gravitational wave detection, is an attractive approach to improve detection efficiency. We propose an optimal statistic for a general ensemble of signals and apply it to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-14 Xilong Fan , Yanbei Chen , Christopher Messenger

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

We review and expand on a Bayesian model selection technique for the detection of gravitational waves from neutron star ring-downs associated with pulsar glitches. The algorithm works with power spectral densities constructed from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 J Clark , I S Heng , M Pitkin , G Woan

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

Many pulsars in the known population exhibit nulling, which is characterised by a sudden cessation and subsequent restoration of radio emission. In this work, we present the localization, timing, and emission properties of a GHRSS…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-12 Shubham Singh , Jayanta Roy , Shyam Sunder , Bhaswati Bhattacharyya , Sanjay Kudale

A gravitational-wave background can be detected in pulsar-timing-array data as Hellings--Downs correlations among the timing residuals measured for different pulsars. The optimal statistic implements this concept as a classical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-14 Michele Vallisneri , Patrick M. Meyers , Katerina Chatziioannou , Alvin J. K. Chua

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

We propose a new method to detect off-pulse (unpulsed and/or continuous) emission from pulsars, using the intensity modulations associated with interstellar scintillation. Our technique involves obtaining the dynamic spectra, separately for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-23 Kumar Ravi , Avinash A. Deshpande

In an earlier paper, we introduced a model for pulsars in which non-radial oscillations of high spherical degree (\el) aligned to the magnetic axis of a spinning neutron star were able to reproduce subpulses like those observed in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Christopher Clemens , R. Rosen

In this work we review the application of the theory of Gaussian processes to the modeling of noise in pulsar-timing data analysis, and we derive various useful and optimized representations for the likelihood expressions that are needed in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-19 Rutger van Haasteren , Michele Vallisneri

Many pulsar folding algorithms are currently deployed to generate strong SNRs for the total intensity profiles. But they require large observation times to improve the SNR effectively. New approaches to de-noise the pulsar total intensity…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-03 Amitesh Singh , Kamlesh N Pathak

Extracting Times of Arrival from pulsar radio signals depends on the knowledge of the pulsars pulse profile and how this template is generated. We examine pulsar template generation with Bayesian methods. We will contrast the classical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 M. Imgrund , D. J. Champion , M. Kramer , H. Lesch