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Glitches are important to understand the internal structure of neutron stars. They are studied using timing observations. The best studied neutron star in this respect is the Crab Pulsar. The first glitch recorded in this pulsar occurred in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-31 M. Vivekanand

We present timing analysis of the accretion powered pulsar SXP 1062, based on the observations of \textit{Swift}, \textit{XMM-Newton} and \textit{Chandra} satellites covering a time span of about 2 years. We obtain a phase coherent timing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-06 M. M. Serim , S. Sahiner , D. Cerri-Serim , S. C. Inam , A. Baykal

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

As the most extensively and continuously monitored neutron star, the Crab pulsar serves as representative of the earliest evolutionary stage. Its unique and complex glitch phenomenology provides an unparalleled testing ground for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-04 Pei-Xin Zhu , Xiao-Ping Zheng

Hard xray data from the RXTE observatory (HEXTE energy range 15 to 240 keV) have been analyzed to obtain a phase coherent timing solution for the Crab pulsar glitch of 15 July 2000. The results are: (1) step change in the rotation frequency…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-12 M. Vivekanand

On 2006 August 23 the Crab Pulsar underwent a glitch, that was reported by the Jodrell Bank and the Xinjiang radio observatories. Neither data are available to the public. However, the Jodrell group publishes monthly arrival times of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-02 M. Vivekanand

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

Radio timing observations of the high-magnetic-field pulsar PSR J1718-3718 have shown that it suffered a large glitch with Dnu_g/nu = (33.25 +/- 0.01) x 10^{-6} between 2007 September (MJD 54336) and 2009 January (MJD 54855). This is the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Richard N Manchester G Hobbs

We report the detection of a glitch in the millisecond pulsar (MSP) PSR J0900$-$3144, which is included in the European, MeerKAT and Parkes pulsar timing array experiments. The dataset combines observations from the MeerKAT, Nan\c{c}ay,…

We presented timing results of PSR B2035+36 using ~9-yr observations with the Nanshan 25-m radio telescope. PSR B2035+36 was reported to exhibit significant changes in pulse profile correlated with spin-down state variations. We found that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-13 F. F. Kou , J. P. Yuan , N. Wang , W. M. Yan , S. J. Dang

Timing observations of 40 mostly young pulsars using the ATNF Parkes radio telescope between 1990 January and 1998 December are reported. In total, 20 previously unreported glitches and ten other glitches were detected in 11 pulsars. These…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 N. Wang , R. N. Manchester , R. T. Pace , M. Bailes , V. M. Kaspi , B. W. Stappers , A. G. Lyne

In this paper we report unusual glitches in two young pulsars, PSR J1825-0935 (B1822-09) and PSR J1835-1106. For PSR J1825-0935, a slow glitch characterised by a temporary decrease in the slowdown rate occurred between 2000 December 31 to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 W. Z. Zou , N. Wang , H. X. Wang , R. N. Manchester , X. J. Wu , J. Zhang

We conducted a timing analysis of PSR J0922+0638 (B0919+06) using data from the Nanshan 26 m radio telescope and the MeerKAT telescope, spanning from January 2001 to March 2023. During this 22-year period, we discovered a previously…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-31 Peng Liu , Mingyang Wang , Jianping Yuan , Zhonghao Tu , Ang Li , Xia Zhou , Na Wang

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

A small number of pulsars are known to emit giant pulses, single pulses much brighter than average. Among these is PSR J0534+2200, also known as the Crab pulsar, a young pulsar with high giant pulse rates. Long-term monitoring of the Crab…

Using data from the Neutron star Interior Composition ExploreR (NICER) observatory, we identified a permanent spin frequency decrease of $\Delta\nu=-(1.04\pm0.07)\times 10^{-7}\,\mathrm{Hz}$ around MJD 60132 in the rotation-powered pulsar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-03 Youli Tuo , M. M. Serim , Marco Antonelli , Lorenzo Ducci , Armin Vahdat , Mingyu Ge , Andrea Santangelo , Fei Xie

Pulsar glitches are attributed to the sudden re-coupling of very weakly coupled large scale superfluid components in the neutron star interior. This process leads to rapid exchange of angular momentum and an increase in spin frequency. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-22 Brynmor Haskell , Vadym Khomenko , Marco Antonelli , Danai Antonopoulou

We report on the observation of a very small glitch observed for the first time in a millisecond pulsar, PSR B1821-24 located in the globular cluster M28. Timing observations were mainly conducted with the Nancay radiotelescope (France) and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ismael Cognard , Donald C. Backer

Six glitches have been recently observed in the rotational frequency of the young pulsar PSR B1737-30 (J1740-3015) using the 25-m Nanshan telescope of Urumqi Observatory. With a total of 20 glitches in 20 years, it is one of the most…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 W. Z. Zou , N. Wang , R. N. Manchester , J. O. Urama , G. Hobbs , Z. Y. Liu , J. P. Yuan

PSR J1806-2125 is a pulsar discovered in the Parkes multibeam pulsar survey with a rotational period of 0.4s and a characteristic age of 65kyr. Between MJDs 51462 and 51894 this pulsar underwent an increase in rotational frequency of…