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We introduce a model for pulsars in which non-radial oscillations of high spherical degree (l) aligned to the magnetic axis of a spinning neutron star reproduce the morphological features of pulsar beams. In our model, rotation of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Christopher Clemens , R. Rosen

We report a detailed observational study of the single pulses from the pulsar J1822$-$2256. The pulsar shows the presence of subpulse drifting, nulling as well as multiple emission modes. During these observations the pulsar existed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-21 Rahul Basu , Dipanjan Mitra

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

Coherent radio emission in pulsars is excited due to instabilities in a relativistically streaming non-stationary plasma flow, which is generated from sparking discharges in the inner acceleration region (IAR) near the stellar surface. A…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-10 Rahul Basu , Dipanjan Mitra , George I. Melikidze

A model for the main observational characteristics of the radio emission of pulsars with well organized drifting subpulses is presented. We propose that drifting subpulses result from the modulation of the radio emission mechanism due to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Gogoberidze , G. Z. Machabeli , D. Melrose , Q. Luo

Radio emission from pulsars is known to exhibit a diverse range of emission phenomena, among which nulling, where the emission becomes temporarily undetectable, is an intriguing one. Observations suggest nulling is prevalent in many…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-11 Garvit Grover , N. D. Ramesh Bhat , Samuel J. McSweeney , Christopher P. Lee , Chia Min Tan , Shih Ching Fu , Bradley W. Meyers

During observations of the Galactic Plane Pulsar Snapshot (GPPS) survey by the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), varying subpulses drifting of PSR J1857+0057 is detected. The following-up observation confirms the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-12 Yi Yan , J. L. Han , C. Wang , P. F. Wang

Individual subpulses of pulsars are regarded as the basic emission components, providing invaluable information to understand the radio emission process in the pulsar magnetosphere. Nevertheless, subpulses are overlapped with each other…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-11 Tao Wang , C. Wang , J. L. Han , N. N. Cai , W. C. Jing , Yi Yan , P. F. Wang

The beautiful sequences of ``drifting'' subpulses observed in some radio pulsars have been regarded as among the most salient and potentially instructive characteristics of their emission, not least because they have appeared to represent a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Avinash A. Deshpande , Joanna M. Rankin

The phenomenon of subpulse drifting may hold the key to understanding the pulsar emission mechanism. Here, we report on new observations of PSR J0034-0721 (B0031-07), carried out with the Murchison Widefield Array at 185 MHz. We observe…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-08 S. J. McSweeney , N. D. R. Bhat , S. E. Tremblay , A. A. Deshpande , S. M. Ord

Young pulsars deviate from a perfectly regular spin-down by two non-deterministic phenomena: impulsive glitches and timing noise. Both phenomena are interesting per se, and may provide insights into the superfluid properties of neutron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-17 Marco Antonelli , Avishek Basu , Brynmor Haskell

Polarization behaviour shows a transition in the pulsar population, where energetic sources with higher spin-down energy loss, $\dot{E} > 10^{34}$ erg~s$^{-1}$, often have fractional linear polarisation ($L/I$) close to 100\%, while below…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-20 Dipanjan Mitra , Rahul Basu , George I. Melikidze

We performed simultaneous observations at 326.5 MHz with the Ooty Radio Telescope and at 326, 610 and 1308 MHz with the Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope for a sample of 12 pulsars, where frequency dependent single pulse behaviour was…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-02 Arun Naidu , Bhal Chandra Joshi , P. K Manoharan , M. A Krishnakumar

The unique and highly unusual drift feature reported for PSR J0815+0939, wherein one component's subpulses drift in the direction opposite of the general trend, is a veritable challenge to pulsar theory. In this paper, we observationally…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-27 Andrzej Szary , Joeri van Leeuwen

We present an analysis of the subpulse drift in PSR J1750-3503, which is characterized by abrupt transitions of drift direction. As the pulsar does not exhibit other mode changes or clear nulling, it is an ideal candidate system for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-27 Andrzej Szary , Joeri van Leeuwen , Geoff Wright , Patrick Weltevrede , Crispin H. Agar , Caterina Tiburzi , Yogesh Maan , Michael J. Keith

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

Nulling is a phenomenon where the emission from a pulsar becomes undetectable (or significantly weaker) for a relatively short period of time, followed by a return to a normal emission state. The timescale of nulling ranges from a few pulse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-27 P. R. Brook , J. B. Gibson , M. A. McLaughlin , M. P. Surnis

We report on the subpulse modulation properties of 1198 pulsars using the Thousand-Pulsar-Array programme on MeerKAT. About 35% of the analysed pulsars exhibit drifting subpulses which are more pronounced towards the deathline, consistent…

Pulsars often display systematic variations in the position and/or intensity of the subpulses, the components that comprise each single pulse. Although the drift of these subpulses was observed in the early years of pulsar research, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-30 Andrzej Szary , Joeri van Leeuwen