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We present a large sample of high-precision, coherently-dedispersed polarization profiles of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) at frequencies between 410 and 1414 MHz. These data include the first polarimetric observations of several of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 I. H. Stairs , S. E. Thorsett , F. Camilo

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

The Galactic interstellar turbulence affects the density distribution and star formation. We introduce a new method of measuring interstellar turbulent density spectra by using the dispersion measures (DMs) of a large sample of pulsars.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-06 Siyao Xu , Bing Zhang

Making precise measurements of pulsar dispersion measures (DMs) and applying suitable corrections for them is amongst the major challenges in high-precision timing programmes such as pulsar timing arrays (PTAs). While the advent of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-25 Dilpreet Kaur , N. D. Ramesh Bhat , Shi Dai , Samuel J. McSweeney , Ryan M. Shannon , Sanjay Kudale , Willem van Straten

We introduce a new technique to constrain the line-of-sight integrated electron density of our Galactic halo $\text{DM}_\text{MW,halo}$ through analysis of the observed dispersion measure distributions of pulsars $\text{DM}_\text{pulsar}$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-09 E. Platts , J. Xavier Prochaska , Casey J. Law

We present an algorithm for the simultaneous measurement of a pulse time-of-arrival (TOA) and dispersion measure (DM) from folded wideband pulsar data. We extend the prescription from Taylor (1992) to accommodate a general two-dimensional…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-04 Timothy T. Pennucci , Paul B. Demorest , Scott M. Ransom

The Parkes telescope has been monitoring 286 radio pulsars approximately monthly since 2007 at an observing frequency of 1.4 GHz. The wide dispersion measure (DM) range of the pulsar sample and the uniformity of the observing procedure make…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-06 H. Kumamoto , S. Dai , S. Johnston , M. Kerr , R. M. Shannon , P. Weltevrede , C. Sobey , R. N. Manchester , G. Hobbs , K. Takahashi

We show the results of our analysis of the pulse broadening phenomenon in 25 pulsars at several frequencies using the data gathered with GMRT and Effelsberg radiotelescopes. Twenty two of these pulsars were not studied in that regard before…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Wojciech Lewandowski , Marta Dembska , Jaroslaw Kijak , Magdalena Kowalinska

Hilbert-Huang transform is a method that has been introduced recently to decompose nonlinear, nonstationary time series into a sum of different modes, each one having a characteristic frequency. Here we show the first successful application…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-02-05 Y. X. Huang , Francois G. Schmitt , Z. M. Lu , Y. L. Liu

With the ever-increasing sensitivity and timing baselines of modern radio telescopes, a growing number of pulsars are being shown to exhibit transitions in their rotational and radio emission properties. In many of these cases, the two are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-11 B. Shaw , B. W. Stappers , P. Weltevrede , P. R. Brook , A. Karastergiou , C. A. Jordan , M. J. Keith , M. Kramer , A. G. Lyne

We derive the Sun's offset from the local mean Galactic plane($z_\odot$) using the observed $z$ distribution of young pulsars. Pulsar distances are obtained from measurements of annual parallax, HI absorption spectra or associations where…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-03 J. M. Yao , R. N. Manchester , N. Wang

The distribution of particles and power to plasma-facing components is of key importance in the design of next-generation fusion devices. Power and particle decay lengths have been measured in a number of MAST L-mode and H-mode discharges…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-07-01 J. R. Harrison , G. M. Fishpool , A. Kirk

We present our results of pulse broadening time estimates and the study of the frequency scaling of this quantity for 60 pulsars based on actual multi-frequency scattering estimates. This research was based on our own measurements,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Wojciech Lewandowski , Magdalena Kowalinska , Jaroslaw Kijak

The turbulent nature of the ionised interstellar medium (IISM) causes dispersion measure (DM) and scattering variations in pulsar timing measurements. To improve precision of gravitational wave measurements, pulsar timing array (PTA)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-06 A. D. Kulkarni , R. M. Shannon , D. J. Reardon , M. T. Miles

We report the detection of an extreme flux decrease accompanied by clear dispersion measure (DM) and rotation measure (RM) variations for pulsar B1929+10 during the 110-minute radio observation with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-23 Zhengli Wang , Shunshun Cao , Jiguang Lu , Yulan Liu , Xun Shi , Jinchen Jiang , Enwei Liang , Weiyang Wang , Heng Xu , Renxin Xu

North-south (N-S) asymmetry of solar activity is a known statistical phenomenon but its significance is difficult to prove or theoretically explain. Here we consider each solar hemisphere as a separate dynamical system connected with the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-06 D. M. Volobuev , N. G. Makarenko

We report on the discovery of four millisecond pulsars (MSPs) in the High Time Resolution Universe (HTRU) pulsar survey being conducted at the Parkes 64-m radio telescope. All four MSPs are in binary systems and are likely to have white…

Circumstellar disks are characteristic for star formation and vanish during the first few Myr of stellar evolution. During this time planets are believed to form in the dense midplane by growth, sedimentation and aggregation of dust.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 D. Madlener , S. Wolf , A. Dutrey , S. Guilloteau

Distance measurements are fundamental to radio pulsars' use as astrophysical probes of General Relativity and the interstellar medium. One of the primary methods for determining pulsar distances is HI kinematics, which leverages the radial…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-12 S. Romero-Ruiz , S. K. Ocker

High-resolution JWST-MIRI images now allow us to resolve in great detail the multi-scale nature of the emission in nearby star-forming galaxies, from compact star-forming regions to large-scale diffuse emission, giving new insights into…