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Pulsars are often lauded for their (relative) rotational and radio emission stability over long time scales. However, long-term observing programmes are identifying an increasing number of pulsars that deviate from this preconceived notion.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-13 M. E. Lower , A. Karastergiou , S. Johnston , P. R. Brook , S. Dai , M. Kerr , R. N. Manchester , L. S. Oswald , R. M. Shannon , C. Sobey , P. Weltevrede

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are a growing class of gamma-ray emitters. Pulsed gamma-ray signals have been detected from more than 40 MSPs with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). The wider radio beams and more compact magnetospheres of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-06-24 T. J. Johnson , C. Venter , A. K. Harding , L. Guillemot , D. A. Smith , M. Kramer , O. Celik , P. R. den Hartog , E. C. Ferrara , X. Hou , J. Lande , P. S. Ray

We present timing models for 20 millisecond pulsars in the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array. The precision of the parameter measurements in these models has been improved over earlier results by using longer data sets and modelling the…

Parallax measurements of pulsars allow for accurate measurements of the interstellar electron density and contribute to accurate tests of general relativity using binary systems. The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will be an ideal instrument…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 R. Smits , S. J. Tingay , N. Wex , M. Kramer , B. Stappers

High cadence, multi-wavelength observations and simulations are employed for the analysis of solar photospheric magnetic bright points (MBPs) in the quiet Sun. The observations were obtained with the Rapid Oscillations in the Solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 P. H. Keys , M. Mathioudakis , D. B. Jess , S. Shelyag , D. J. Christian , F. P. Keenan

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are known for their long-term stability. Using six years of observations from the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER), we have conducted an in-depth analysis of the X-ray timing results for six…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-26 Shijie Zheng , Dawei Han , Heng Xu , Kejia Lee , Jianping Yuan , Haoxi Wang , Mingyu Ge , Liang Zhang , Yongye Li , Yitao Yin , Xiang Ma , Yong Chen , Shuangnan Zhang

We report the discovery of a new 5.78 ms-period millisecond pulsar (MSP), PSR J1740-5340B (NGC 6397B), in an eclipsing binary system discovered with the Parkes radio telescope (now also known as Murriyang), Australia, and confirmed with the…

The millisecond pulsar J1823-3021A is a very active giant pulse emitter in the globular cluster NGC 6624. New observations with the MeerKAT radio telescope have revealed 14350 giant pulses over 5 hours of integration time, with an average…

We present the first pulsar parallaxes measured with phase-referenced pulsar VLBI observations at 5 GHz. Due to the steep spectra of pulsars, previous astrometric measurements have been at lower frequencies. However, the strongest pulsars…

The temporal stability of millisecond pulsars is remarkable, rivaling even some terrestrial atomic clocks at long timescales. Using this property, we show that millisecond pulsars distributed in the galactic neighborhood form an ensemble of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-16 David F. Phillips , Aakash Ravi , Reza Ebadi , Ronald L. Walsworth

Millisecond pulsars (MSP) are an important subclass of rotation powered pulsars (RPP), traditionally defined as those with $P_s < 20-30$~ms and $B_s \lesssim 10^{10}$~G. We re-examine this definition by applying Gaussian mixture model (GMM)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-11 Priyam Halder , Satyaki Goswami , Protyusha Halder , Uday Ghosh , Sushan Konar

NGC 6316 is a poorly studied, distant, and massive globular cluster (GC) with prominent gamma-ray emission detected via the \textit{Fermi} Large Area Telescope (LAT). Based on gamma-ray spectral studies, NGC 6316 is expected to host tens of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-09 Deven Bhakta , Scott M. Ransom , Megan DeCesar , Shi Dai

We present baseband radio observations of the millisecond pulsar J1909$-$3744, the most precisely timed pulsar, using the MeerKAT telescope as part of the MeerTime pulsar timing array campaign. During a particularly bright scintillation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-15 Matthew T. Miles , Ryan M. Shannon , Matthew Bailes , Daniel J. Reardon , Sarah Buchner , Hannah Middleton , Renee Spiewak

In spite of the rich phenomenology of the polarization properties of radio pulsars, the rotating vector model (RVM) created 50 years ago remains the best method to determine the beam geometry of a pulsar. We apply the RVM to a sample of 854…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-08 Simon Johnston , Michael Kramer , Aris Karastergiou , Mike Keith , Lucy Oswald , Aditya Parthasarathy , Patrick Weltevrede

The S-shaped swing of the linear polarization position angle (PPA) observed in many pulsars can be interpreted by the rotating vector model (RVM). However, efforts to fit the RVM for a large sample of pulsars observed with the MeerKAT…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-17 Simon Johnston , Dipanjan Mitra , Michael Keith , Lucy Oswald , Aris Karastergiou

A spinning neutron star (NS) that is asymmetric with respect to its spin axis can emit continuous gravitational wave (GW) signals. The spin frequencies and their distribution of radio millisecond pulsars (MSPs) and accreting MSPs provide…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-25 Wen-Cong Chen

Radio pulsar timing array (PTA) experiments using millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are beginning to detect nHz gravitational waves (GWs). MSPs are bright GeV gamma-ray emitters, and all-sky monitoring of about 100 MSPs with the Fermi Large Area…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-18 Matthew Kerr , Zorawar Wadiasingh , Adrien Laviron , Constantinos Kalapotharakos , Thankful Cromartie , Tyler Cohen

Pulsar motions in our Galaxy from their birth until 2 Gyr are studied statistically via Monte-Carlo simulation of $2\times 10^5$ pulsars with the best available representation of the Galactic potential. We find that the distribution of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 X. H. Sun , J. L. Han

We analyse dispersion measure (DM) variations in six years of radio observations of more than 160 young pulsars, all gamma ray candidates for the Fermi gamma ray telescope mostly located close to the Galactic plane. DMs were fit across 256…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 E. Petroff , M. J. Keith , S. Johnston , W. van Straten , R. M. Shannon

Accurate measurement of pulsar distances via astrometry using very long baseline interferometry enables the improvement of Galactic electron density distribution models, improving distance estimates for the vast majority of pulsars for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 A. T. Deller , S. J. Tingay , M. Bailes , J. E. Reynolds