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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

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

Timing observations from the Parkes 64-m radio telescope for 165 pulsars between 1990 and 2011 have been searched for period glitches. A total of 107 glitches were identified in 36 pulsars, where 61 have previously been reported and 46 are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-11-12 M. Yu , R. N. Manchester , G. Hobbs , S. Johnston , V. M. Kaspi , M. Keith , A. G. Lyne , G. J. Qiao , V. Ravi , J. M. Sarkissian , R. Shannon , R. X. Xu

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

Context. A small number of pulsar glitches have been identified as anti-glitches or spin-down glitches, where the overall contribution to the pulsar's rotation frequency is negative. A notable example of a spin-down glitch was observed in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-03 A. G. Panin , E. V. Sokolova

Ge et al. reported a peculiar large glitch observed from SGR 1935 recently~\citep{2022arXiv221103246G}. % Interestingly, this glitch occurred about $3.1\pm 2.5~\rm{days}$ before FRB 200428, accompanied by a delayed spin up (DSU) process…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-16 Wei-Hua Wang , Ming-Yu Ge , Xi Huang , Xiao-Ping Zheng

The radio pulsar PSR J0742-2822 is known to exhibit rapid changes between different pulse profile states that correlate with changes in its spin-down rate. However, the connection between these variations and the glitch activity of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-12 E. Zubieta , F. García , S. del Palacio , C. M. Espinoza , S. B. Araujo Furlan , G. Gancio , C. O. Lousto , J. A. Combi , E. Gügercinoğlu

Glitches detected in pulsar timing observations at the Nanshan radio telescope of Urumqi Observatory between 2002 July and 2008 December are presented. In total, 29 glitches were detected in 19 young pulsars, with this being the first…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 J. P. Yuan , N. Wang , R. N. Manchester , Z. Y. Liu

We report the pulse timing analysis of \emph{Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer} (\emph{RXTE}) observations of the anomalous X-ray pulsar 1E 2259+586 from its 2002 outburst to October, 2010. Our objectives are to extend the work on the recovery…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-10-07 Burcin Icdem , Altan Baykal , S. Cagdas Inam

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

The dynamics of the solid crust + magnetic field lines of pulsars is a much debated issue, and remains unsettled after 50 years. Some pieces of evidence have emerged to complete and confirm theoretical calculations and expectations. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-23 Lucas G. Barão , J. E. Horvath

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…

VLBI observations of the Crab pulsar with the 64-m radio telescope at Kalyazin (Russia) and the 46-m radio telescope of the Algonquin Radio Observatory (Canada) at 2.2 GHz and single-dish observations of the millisecond pulsar B1937+21 with…

Pulsars are rapidly spinning and highly magnetized neutron stars, with highly stable rotational period and gradual spin-down over a long timescale due to the loss of radiation. Glitches refer to the events that suddenly increase the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-06 C. W. Ng , J. Takata , K. S. Cheng

In separate series of observations of the Crab pulsar, pulse broadening due to scattering was measured at 111 MHz, and variations of dispersion due to pulse delay were measured at higher radio frequencies. In a remarkable event lasting 200…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Kuzmin , B. Ya. Losovsky , C. A. Jordan , F. Graham Smith

The evolutions of a neutron star's rotation and magnetic field (B-field) have remained unsolved puzzles for over half a century. We ascribe the rotational braking torques of pulsar to both components, the standard magnetic dipole radiation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-12 Cheng-Min Zhang , Xiang-Han Cui , Di Li , De-Hua Wang , Shuang-Qiang Wang , Na Wang , Jian-Wei Zhang , Bo Peng , Wei-Wei Zhu , Yi-Yan Yang , Yuan-Yue Pan

A striking feature of the Vela pulsar (PSR J0835$-$4510) is that it undergoes sudden increases in its spin frequency, known as glitches, with a fractional amplitude on the order of $10^{-6}$ approximately every 900 days. Glitches of smaller…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-17 L. Dunn , A. Melatos , C. M. Espinoza , D. Antonopoulou , R. Dodson

We report the detection of an anti-glitch with a fractional frequency change of $\Delta\nu/\nu=-3.46(6)\times10^{-9}$ in the rotation-powered pulsar PSR J1835$-$1106 at MJD 55813, based on timing observations collected with the Nanshan 26-m…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-17 Mingyang Wang , Peng Liu , Jianping Yuan , Ang Li , Youli Tuo , Shijun Dang , Weihua Wang , Mingyu Ge , Xia Zhou , Na Wang

Glitch is supposed to be a useful probe into pulsar's interior, but the underlying physics remains puzzling. The glitch activity may reflect a lower limit of the crustal moment of inertia in conventional neutron star models. Nevertheless,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-18 Weihua Wang , Xiaoyu Lai , Enping Zhou , Jiguang Lu , Xiaoping Zheng , Renxin Xu

This article is the first in the series that analyze about 1.87 million periods of PSR B0531+21 (Crab pulsar), observed by the PCA detector aboard the RXTE x-ray observatory. The Crab pulsar's x-ray light curve shows little variation over…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 M. Vivekanand