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This article is the second in the series that analyze about 1.87 million periods of Crab pulsar, observed by the PCA detector aboard the RXTE x-ray observatory. At these energies the pulsar displays none of the three phenomena that are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Vivekanand

Aims. We aim to elucidate the pulsar radio emission by studying several single-pulse phenomena, how they relate, and how they evolve with observing frequency. We intend to inspire models for the pulsar radio emission and fast radio bursts.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-19 F. Jankowski , J. -M. Griessmeier , M. Surnis , G. Theureau , J. Petri

A number of radio pulsars exhibit intriguing mode-switching behavior. Recent observations of PSR B0943+10 revealed correlated radio and X-ray mode switches, providing a new avenue for understanding this class of objects. The large X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Natalia I. Storch , Wynn C. G. Ho , Dong Lai , Slavko Bogdanov , Craig O. Heinke

We report on the unique nulling properties of PSR B0818-41, using the GMRT at 325 and 610 MHz. We find following interesting behaviour just before and after the nulls: (i) The pulsar's intensity does not switch off abruptly at the null, but…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Bhaswati Bhattacharyya , Yashwant Gupta , Janusz Gil

In this paper, we present a study of orthogonal polarization modes in the radio emission of PSR B1133+16, conducted within the frame of simultaneous, multi-frequency, single-pulse observations. Simultaneously observing at two frequencies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Karastergiou , M. Kramer , S. Johnston , A. G. Lyne , N. D. R. Bhat , Y. Gupta

PSR B0031-07 is well known to exhibit three different modes of drifting sub-pulses (mode A, B and C). It has recently been shown that in a multifrequency observation, consisting of 2700 pulses, all driftmodes were visible at low…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. M. Smits , D. Mitra , B. W. Stappers , J. Kuijpers , P. Weltevrede , A. Jessner , Y. Gupta

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

Single pulses from radio pulsars contain a wealth of information about emission and propagation in the magnetosphere and insight into their timing properties. It was recently demonstrated that single-pulse emission is responsible for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-13 S. Osłowski , W. van Straten , M. Bailes , A. Jameson , G. Hobbs

The phenomenon of profile mode switching in pulsars, where the stable average pulse profile changes to another stable state on the timescale of a pulsar's period, remains poorly understood. We sought to understand how pulsars undergo…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-13 Casey Brinkman , Dipanjan Mitra , Joanna Rankin

We present a detailed single pulse study of PSR B1055-52 based on observations at the Parkes radio telescope. The radio emission is found to have a complex modulation dominated by a periodicity of ~20 times its rotational period P (0.197s),…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Patrick Weltevrede , Geoff Wright , Simon Johnston

PSR B0818-41 is one of the few pulsars which show multiple drift regions having well defined phase relationship. In this paper we report new results from the multifrequency GMRT observations of this pulsar. Significant linear polarization…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Bhaswati Bhattacharyya , Yashwant Gupta , Janusz Gil

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

This paper reports on single-pulse radio observations of PSR B1702-19 and their implications for pulsar emission theories. These observations were made with the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope at 1380 and 328 MHz. The PA-swing is used…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Weltevrede , G. A. E. Wright , B. W. Stappers

PSR B0823+26, a 0.53-s radio pulsar, displays a host of emission phenomena over timescales of seconds to (at least) hours, including nulling, subpulse drifting, and mode-changing. Studying pulsars like PSR B0823+26 provides further insight…

Pulsars are known to manifest complex phenomena, such as nulling, sub-pulse drifting, and periodicity. Within the purview of this investigation, we have harnessed the wavelet analysis technique to scrutinize the multifaceted periodicities…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-19 Peng-Fu Tian , Ping Zhang , Wen Yang , Wei Wang , Pei Wang

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 propose that in some pulsars the magnetosphere has different states with different geometries or/and different distributions of currents, it occasionally switches between them. These states have different spindown rates and emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-11-11 A. N. Timokhin

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

As one of the paradigm examples to probe into pulsar magnetospheric dynamics, PSR B0943+10 (J0946+0951) manifests representatively, showing mode switch, orthogonal polarization and subpulse drifting, frequently studied below 600 MHz. Here…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-19 Shunshun Cao , Jinchen Jiang , Jaroslaw Dyks , Longfei Hao , Kejia Lee , Zhixuan Li , Jiguang Lu , Zhichen Pan , Weiyang Wang , Zhengli Wang , Jiangwei Xu , Heng Xu , Renxin Xu

We present new results from high sensitivity GMRT observations of PSR B0826-34. We provide a model to explain the observed subpulse drift properties of this pulsar, including the apparent reversals of the drift direction. In this model, PSR…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Y. Gupta , J. Gil , J. Kijak , M. Sendyk