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Pulsars are rapidly rotating neutron stars that emit pulses of radiation at regular intervals, typically ranging from milliseconds to seconds. The precise recording and modelling of the arrival times of pulsar emission is known as timing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-03 Thulo Letsele , Mechiel Christiaan Bezuidenhout , the MeerTRAP collaboration

We present a total of 48 minutes of observations of the nearby, bright millisecond pulsar PSR J0437-4715 taken at the Parkes radio observatory in Australia. The data were obtained at a central radio frequency of 1380 MHz using a high-speed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 F. A. Jenet , S. B. Anderson , V. M. Kaspi , T. A. Prince , S. C. Unwin

PSR J0955$-$6150 is a member of a class of eccentric MSP+He WD systems (eMSPs), whose binary evolution is poorly understood and believed to be different to that of traditional MSP+He WD systems. Measuring the masses of the stars in this…

While pulsars possess exceptional rotational stability, large scale timing studies have revealed at least two distinct types of irregularities in their rotation: red timing noise and glitches. Using modern Bayesian techniques, we…

We report on a detailed analysis of the radio emission during the different modes of the pulsar J0826+2637 (B0823+26), observed using the Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope at 306-339 MHz observing frequencies. The pulsar profile has a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-19 Rahul Basu , Dipanjan Mitra

This paper describes a comprehensive measurement model for the error budget of pulse arrival times with emphasis on intrinsic pulse jitterand plasma propagation effects (particularly interstellar scattering), which are stochastic in time…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-20 J. M. Cordes , R. M. Shannon

Measuring a pulsar's rotational evolution is crucial to understanding the nature of the pulsar. Here we provide updated timing models for the rotational evolution of six pulsars, five of which are rotation phase-connected using primarily…

PSR J1951+2837 is a nearby pulsar with a period of 7.334 s and dispersion measure of DM = 2.9 $\pm$ 0.6 pc cm$^{-3}$, located about 200 or 300 pc from the Sun. It occasionally radiates bright pulses and has been observed by the Large Phased…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-19 T. V. Smirnova , D. J. Zhou , M. A. Kitaeva , S. A. Andrianov , C. Wang , P. F. Wang , J. L. Han , S. A. Tyul'bashev

We present results of more than three decades of timing measurements of the first known binary pulsar, PSR B1913+16. Like most other pulsars, its rotational behavior over such long time scales is significantly affected by small-scale…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-06-08 Joel M. Weisberg , David J. Nice , Joseph H. Taylor

PSR J0540$-$6919 is the second-most energetic radio pulsar known and resides in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Like the Crab pulsar it is observed to emit giant radio pulses (GPs). We used the newly-commissioned PTUSE instrument on the MeerKAT…

Many radio pulsars have stable pulse profiles, but some exhibit mode changing where the profile switches between two or more quasi-stable modes of emission. So far, these effects had only been seen in relatively slow pulsars, but we show…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-31 Nikhil Mahajan , Marten H. van Kerkwijk , Robert Main , Ue-Li Pen

We present evidence that the integrated profiles of some millisecond pulsars exhibit severe changes that are inconsistent with the moding phenomenon as known from slowly rotating pulsars. We study these profile instabilities in particular…

Frequency metrology outperforms any other branch of metrology in accuracy (parts in $10^{-16}$) and small fluctuations ($<10^{-17}$). In turn, among celestial bodies, the rotation speed of millisecond pulsars (MSP) is by far the most stable…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2022-02-04 Siyuan Chen , Francois Vernotte , Enrico Rubiola

The stable rotation of young pulsars is often interrupted by two non-deterministic phenomena: glitches and red timing noise. Timing noise provides insights into plasma and nuclear physics under extreme conditions. The framework leverages…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-04 Yirong Wen , Jingbo Wang , Wenming Yan , Jianping Yuan , Na Wang , Yong Xia , Jing Zou

The MeerKAT telescope represents an outstanding opportunity for radio pulsar timing science with its unique combination of a large collecting area and aperture efficiency (effective area $\sim$7500 m$^2$), system temperature ($T<20$K), high…

Studies of subpulse variability in millisecond pulsars (MSPs) offer important constraints on their emission physics. Using the high sensitivity of FAST, we present the first identification of distinct single pulse fluctuation behaviour in…

The smooth spin-down of young pulsars is perturbed by two non-deterministic phenomenon, glitches and timing noise. Although the timing noise provides insights into nuclear and plasma physics at extreme densities, it acts as a barrier to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-25 A. Parthasarathy , R. M. Shannon , S. Johnston , L. Lentati , M. Bailes , S. Dai , M. Kerr , R. N. Manchester , S. Oslowski , C. Sobey , W. van Straten , P. Weltevrede

Accurate polarimetric calibration of the radio pulse profiles from pulsars is crucial for studying their radiation properties at these wavelengths. Inaccurate calibration can also distort recorded pulse profiles, introducing noise in time…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-11 Lucas Guillemot , Ismaël Cognard , Willem van Straten , Gilles Theureau , Eric Gérard

We study the effect of pulsar rotation on timing of binary pulsars, with particular emphasis on the double pulsar system J0737-3039. Special relativistic aberration due to the orbital motion of pulsar changes both the longitude and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Roman R. Rafikov , Dong Lai

The goal of the MeerKAT radio telescope's pulsar timing array programme (MPTA) is the detection of gravitational waves (GWs) of nanohertz frequencies. Evidence for such a signal was recently announced by the MPTA and several other pulsar…