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In addition to coherent pulsation, many accreting neutron stars exhibit flaring activity and strong aperiodic variability on time scales similar to or shorter than their pulsation period. Such a behavior shows that the accretion flow in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-19 D. Klochkov , A. Santangelo , R. Staubert , R. E. Rothschild

Time-correlated variations in the pulse profiles of radio pulsars provide insights into changes in their magnetospheres. For a small number of pulsars (~20), these variations have been shown to correlate with spin-down rate. Many of these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-30 Michael J. Keith , Renée Spiewak , Andrew G. Lyne , Patrick Weltevrede , Danai Antonopoulou , Ben Stappers

Timing noise in pulsars is often modelled with a Fourier-basis Gaussian process that follows a power law with periodic boundary conditions on the observation time, $T_\mathrm{span}$. However the actual noise processes can extend well below…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-14 Michael J. Keith , Iuliana C. Niţu

Pulsar timing is a powerful tool that, by accounting for every rotation of a pulsar, precisely measures the spin frequency, spin frequency derivatives, astrometric position, binary parameters when applicable, properties of the ISM, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-05 Jackson Taylor , Scott Ransom , Prajwal V. Padmanabh

We study statistical properties of stochastic variations in pulse arrival times, timing noise, in radio pulsars using a new analysis method applied in the time domain. The method proceeds in two steps. First, we subtract low-frequency…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Steve Price , Bennett Link , Steve Shore , David Nice

In this paper, we present the linear decomposition method (LDM), which we developed to detect and analyze pulsar profile variations and mode changing behaviour. We developed LDM utilizing the likelihood function approach assuming the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-07 Longfei Hao , Zhixuan Li , Faxin Shen , Yonghua Xu , Yuxiang Huang , Kejia Lee , Qingzheng Yu , Hongguang Wang

We introduce the concept of stationary graviton non-Gaussianity (nG), an observable that can be probed in terms of 3-point correlation functions of a stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background. When evaluated in momentum space,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-15 Cari Powell , Gianmassimo Tasinato

The population of radio pulsars is observed to demonstrate certain polarization properties not explained by the conventional picture of pulsar polarization, namely frequency evolution of polarization, deviations of the linear polarization…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-02 Lucy Oswald , Aris Karastergiou , Simon Johnston

We carry out a classification of the observed pulsar dataset into distinct clusters, based on the $P-\dot{P}$ diagram, using Extreme Deconvolution based Gaussian Mixture Model. We then use the Bayesian Information Criterion to select the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-24 Tarun Tej Reddy Ch. , Shantanu Desai

Pulse profile modelling is a relativistic ray-tracing technique that can be used to infer masses, radii and geometric parameters of neutron stars. In a previous study, we looked at the performance of this technique when applied to…

We report on radiation properties of extreme nulling pulsar J1502-5653, by analyzing the data acquired from the Parkes 64-m telescope at 1374 MHz. The radio emission from this pulsar exhibits sequences of several tens to several hundreds…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 J. Li , A. Esamdin , R. N. Manchester , M. F. Qian , H. B. Niu

An updated analysis of pulsar glitch parameters was conducted using a sample of 215 pulsars, encompassing 677 recorded glitch events, each glitch at least once between 1968 and 2024. The glitch rates were estimated and plotted against…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-20 Miracle Chibuzor Marcel

Pulsars are famed for their rotational clock-like stability and their highly-repeatable pulse shapes. However, it has long been known that there are unexplained deviations (often termed "timing noise") from the rate at which we predict…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-06-29 Andrew Lyne , George Hobbs , Michael Kramer , Ingrid Stairs , Ben Stappers

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

The statistical characterization of the measurement errors of a phasor measurement unit (PMU) is currently receiving considerable interest in the power systems community. This paper focuses on the characteristics of the errors in magnitude…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-18 Demetra Salls , Jairo Ramírez Torres , Antos Cheeramban Varghese , John Patterson , Anamitra Pal

Aims. To make a detailed study of the nulling and subpulse drifting in PSR J1727$-$2739 for investigation of its radiation properties. Methods. The observations were carried out on 20 March, 2004 using the Parkes 64-m radio telescope, with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-17 Z. G. Wen , N. Wang , J. P. Yuan , W. M. Yan , R. N. Manchester , R. Yuen , V. Gajjar

Here we present a Bayesian method of including discrete measurements of dispersion measure due to the interstellar medium in the direction of a pulsar as prior information in the analysis of that pulsar. We use a simple simulation to show…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-10 Lindley Lentati , Paul Alexander , Michael P. Hobson

It is now known that the emission from radio pulsars can vary over a wide range of timescales, from fractions of seconds to decades. However, it is not yet known if long- and short-term emission variability are caused by the same physical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-28 Paul Brook , Aris Karastergiou , Simon Johnston

Pulsar timing-array correlation measurements offer an exciting opportunity to test the nature of gravity in the cosmologically novel nanohertz gravitational wave regime. The stochastic gravitational wave background is assumed Gaussian and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-23 Reginald Christian Bernardo , Kin-Wang Ng

Modeling of X-ray pulse profiles from millisecond pulsars offers a promising method of inferring the mass-to-radius ratios of neutron stars. Recent observations with NICER resulted in measurements of radii for three neutron stars using this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-18 Tong Zhao , Dimitrios Psaltis , Feryal Ozel , Elif Beklen
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