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The fine structure and the variations of the optical pulse shape and phase of the Crab pulsar are studied on various time scales. The observations have been carried out on 4-m William Hershel and 6-m BTA telescopes with APD photon counter,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Karpov , G. Beskin , A. Biryukov , V. Debur , V. Plokhotnichenko , M. Redfern , A. Shearer

Using Time-Correlated Single Photon Counting (TCSPC) for the purpose of fluorescence lifetime measurements is usually limited in speed due to pile-up. With modern instrumentation this limitation can be lifted significantly but some…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2018-05-23 Matthias Patting , Paja Reisch , Marcus Sackrow , Rhys Dowler , Marcelle Koenig , Michael Wahl

The pulsed radiation from the Crab pulsar consists of the main pulse (MP) and inter pulse (IP), as well as of the extra pulse components appearing at certain frequencies. It has been studied at many frequencies and contains unique…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-24 Victor M. Kontorovich , Sergii V. Trofymenko

We review the results of a timing analysis of the observations for ten bright X-ray pulsars (with fluxes >100 mCrab in the 20-100 keV energy band) that fell within the INTEGRAL field of view from 2003 to 2007. The dependence of the pulse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 A. A. Lutovinov , S. S. Tsygankov

There have been significant developments in the period estimation tools and methods for analysing high energy pulsars in the past few decades. However, these tools lack well-standardised methods for calculating uncertainties in period…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-14 Akshat Singhal , Ishan Jain , Suman Bala , Varun Bhalerao

We analyze the energy dependence of the X-ray pulse profile and the phase-resolved spectra (PRS) of the Crab pulsar using observations from the Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) and the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-13 Lin-Li Yan , You-Li Tuo , Ming-Yu Ge , Fang-Jun Lu , Shi-Jie Zheng , Ling-Jun Wang

Saturable absorption is a nonlinear effect where a material's ability to absorb light is frustrated due to a high influx of photons and the creation of electron vacancies. Experimentally induced saturable absorption in copper revealed a…

The Crab nebula and its pulsar have been observed for about 3 hours with the high-speed photo-polarimeter OPTIMA in January 2002 at the Calar Alto 3.5m telescope. The Crab pulsar intensity and polarization are determined at all phases of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-14 G. Kanbach , A. Slowikowska , S. Kellner , H. Steinle

The Weak Equivalence Principle states that the geodesics of a test particle in a gravitational field are independent of the particle's constitution. To constrain violations of the Weak Equivalence Principle, we use the one-meter telescope…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-18 Calvin Leung , Beili Hu , Sophia Harris , Amy Brown , Hien Nguyen , Jason Gallicchio

A stroboscope designed to observe pulsars in the optical spectrum is presented. The absolute phase of the stroboscope is synchronized to better than 2.5 microseconds with the known radio ephemerides for a given pulsar. The absolute timing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jurij Kotar , Simon Vidrih , Andrej Cadez

The Rotation powered pulsars Crab, Vela and Geminga have double peaked folded light curves (FLC) at $\gamma$-ray energies, that have an approximate reflection symmetry. Here this aspect is studied at soft X-ray energy by analyzing a high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-25 M. Vivekanand

A pulsar timing system has been operating in the 18-cm band at the Urumqi Astronomical Observatory 25-m telescope since mid-1999. Frequency resolution allowing dedispersion of the pulsar signals is provided by a 2X128X2.5 MHz…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 N. Wang , R. N. Manchester , J. Zhang , X. J. Wu , A. Yusup , A. G. Lyne , K. S. Cheng , M. Z. Chen

We investigate polarization of high-energy emissions from the Crab pulsar in the frame work of the outer gap accelerator, following previous works of Cheng and coworkers. The recent version of the outer gap, which extends from inside the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-31 J. Takata , H. -K. Chang , K. S. Cheng

A dedicated stroboscopic device was used to obtain optical spectra of the Crab main-pulse and inter-pulse as well as the spectrum of the underlying nebula when the pulsar is turned off. As the nebular emission is very inhomogeneous, our…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Alberto Carraminana , Andrej Cadez , Tomaz Zwitter

CRAB pulsar data has been parameterized by using exponential function or broken exponential function. we use non extensive form of exponential function to parameterize this data.

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-06-28 Ashok Razdan

Accretion-powered X-ray pulsars offer a unique opportunity to study physics under extreme conditions. To fully exploit this potential, the interrelated problems of modelling radiative transport and the dynamical structure of the accretion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-03 Inga Saathoff , Victor Doroshenko , Andrea Santangelo

We have measured the linear polarisation of hard X-ray emission from the Crab in a previously unexplored energy interval, 20-120 keV. The introduction of two new observational parameters, the polarisation fraction and angle stands to…

In October 1997, radio pulses from the Crab Pulsar underwent abnormal delay. This was reported by two radio observatories, both of which explained this frequency dependent and time varying delay as being due to refractive effects of ionized…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-27 M. Vivekanand

This article is the first in the series that analyze about 1.87 million periods of PSR B0531+21 (Crab pulsar), observed by the PCA detector aboard the RXTE x-ray observatory. The Crab pulsar's x-ray light curve shows little variation over…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 M. Vivekanand

The Crab Pulsar is known to feature plasma lensing events known as echoes. These events are characterized by additional components in the pulse profile which are produced by additional images formed when the pulsar's radio emission is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-27 Thierry Serafin Nadeau , Marten H. van Kerkwijk , Jing Luo , Robert Main , Kiyoshi W. Masui , James W. McKee , Ue-Li Pen