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Pulsars are the most stable macroscopic clocks found in nature. Spinning with periods as short as a few milliseconds, their stability can supersede that of the best atomic clocks on Earth over timescales of a few years. Stable clocks are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-06 Delphine Perrodin , Alberto Sesana

Detecting and studying pulsars above a few GHz in the radio band is challenging due to the typical faintness of pulsar radio emission, their steep spectra, and the lack of observatories with sufficient sensitivity operating at high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-29 Pablo Torne

Pulsars are natural cosmic clocks. On long timescales they rival the precision of terrestrial atomic clocks. Using a technique called pulsar timing, the exact measurement of pulse arrival times allows a number of applications, ranging from…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-14 Werner Becker , Michael Kramer , Alberto Sesana

Pulsars are neutron stars, stellar corpses left over after supernova explosions of stars about ten times as massive as our Sun, with densities comparable to the atomic nucleus', spinning with periods from few milliseconds up to few seconds,…

Pulsars are the only cosmic radio sources known to be sufficiently compact to show diffractive interstellar scintillations. Images of the variance of radio signals in both time and frequency can be used to detect pulsars in large-scale…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-17 S. Dai , S. Johnston , M. E. Bell , W. A. Coles , G. Hobbs , R. D. Ekers , E. Lenc

Pulsars provide a wealth of information about General Relativity, the equation of state of superdense matter, relativistic particle acceleration in high magnetic fields, the Galaxy's interstellar medium and magnetic field, stellar and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 D. R. Lorimer , M. A. McLaughlin

Radio pulsars are unique laboratories for a wide range of physics and astrophysics. Understanding how they are created, how they evolve and where we find them in the Galaxy, with or without binary companions, is highly constraining of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-26 Victoria M. Kaspi , Michael Kramer

Pulsars play a crucial astrophysical role as the highly energetic compact radio, X-ray, and gamma-ray sources. Our previous works show that the radio pulsars found as the pulsing gamma sources by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the board…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-29 I. F. Malov , M. A. Timirkeeva

We present our work towards using the Korean VLBI (Very Long Baseline Interferometer) Network (KVN) and VLBI Exploration of Radio Astronomy (VERA) arrays combined into the KVN and VERA Array (KaVA) for observations of radio pulsars at high…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-10 Richard Dodson , Chunglee Kim , Bongwon Sohn , María J. Rioja , Taehyun Jung , Andrew Seymour , Wasim Raja

Pulsars are remarkably precise "celestial clocks" that can be used to explore many different aspects of physics and astrophysics. In this article I give a brief summary of pulsar properties and describe some of the applications of pulsar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-16 R N Manchester

Discovery of pulsars is one of the main goals for large radio telescopes. The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), that incorporates an L-band 19-beam receiver with a system temperature of about 20~K, is the most…

The number of known millisecond pulsars has dramatically increased in the last few years. Regular observations of these pulsars may allow gravitational waves with frequencies ~10^-9 Hz to be detected. A ``pulsar timing array'' is therefore…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 George Hobbs

Pulsars have been primarily detected by their narrow pulses or periodicity in time domain data. Interferometric surveys for pulsars are challenging due to the trade-off between beam sensitivity and beam size and the corresponding tradeoff…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-26 Jitendra Salal , Shriharsh P. Tendulkar , Visweshwar Ram Marthi

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) has discovered more than 650 new pulsars, which account for 20% of our known Galactic pulsar population. In this paper, we estimate the prospect of a pulsar survey with a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-01 Mengyao Xue , Weiwei Zhu , Xiangping Wu , Renxin Xu , Hongguang Wang

It is difficult to discover pulsars via their gamma-ray emission because current instruments typically detect fewer than one photon per million rotations. This creates a significant computing challenge for isolated pulsars, where the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-23 L. Nieder , B. Allen , C. J. Clark , H. J. Pletsch

The search of pulsars in monitoring observations being carried out for 5 years using LPA LPI radio telescope was done in 96 spatial beams covering daily 17,000 square degrees. Five new pulsars were detected. Candidates into pulsars were…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-21 S. A. Tyul'bashev , M. A. Kitaeva , V. S. Tyul'bashev , V. M. Malofeev , G. E. Tyul'basheva

Pulsars are spinning neutron stars typically observed as pulses emitted at radio wavelengths. These pulsations exhibit a rotational stability that rival the best atomic clocks, making pulsars one of the most important tools for resolving…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-02 Emmanuel Fonseca

The sheer number of pulsars discovered by the SKA, in combination with the exceptional timing precision it can provide, will revolutionize the field of pulsar astrophysics. The SKA will provide a complete census of pulsars in both the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-19 J. M. Cordes , M. Kramer , T. J. W. Lazio , B. W. Stappers , D. C. Backer , S. Johnston

Pulsar timing is a technique that uses the highly stable spin periods of neutron stars to investigate a wide range of topics in physics and astrophysics. Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) use sets of extremely well-timed pulsars as a Galaxy-scale…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-05 J. P. W. Verbiest , S. Oslowski , S. Burke-Spolaor

We describe a comprehensive pulsar monitoring campaign for the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the {\em Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope} (formerly GLAST). The detection and study of pulsars in gamma rays give insights into the populations of…

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