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We present the description and initial results of the TRAPUM (TRAnsients And PUlsars with MeerKAT) search for pulsars associated with supernova remnants (SNRs), pulsar wind nebulae and unidentified TeV emission. The list of sources to be…

The high stellar density in the central parsecs around the Galactic Centre makes it a seemingly favourable environment for finding relativistic binary pulsars. These include pulsars orbiting other neutron stars, stellar-mass black holes or…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-25 R. P. Eatough , P. Torne , G. Desvignes , M. Kramer , R. Karuppusamy , B. Klein , L. G. Spitler , K. J. Lee , D. J. Champion , K. Liu , R. S. Wharton , L. Rezzolla , H. Falcke

We present a detailed analysis of the Vela pulsar's rotational behaviour using approximately 100 months of observational data spanning from September 2016 to January 2025, during which four glitches were identified. Here, we demonstrate the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-25 Himanshu Grover , Erbil Gügercinoğlu , Bhal Chandra Joshi , M. A. Krishnakumar , Shantanu Desai , P. Arumugam , Debades Bandyopadhyay

The Vela pulsar is one of the most exciting gamma-ray sources and has been at the forefront of high-energy pulsar science since the detection of gamma-ray pulsations at the radio period by SAS-2 in 1975. With the unprecedented angular…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-22 T. J. Johnson , Ö. Çelik , M. Kerr , A. K. Harding , G. A. Caliandro

We present high-resolution multi-frequency single-pulse observations of the Vela pulsar, PSR B0833-45, aimed at studying micro-structure, phase-resolved intensity fluctuations and energy distributions at 1.41 and 2.30 GHz. We show that the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Kramer , S. Johnston , W. van Straten

Detailed structures of the Vela pulsar (PSR B0833-45, with a period of $89.33$ milliseconds) are predicted by adopting a recently-constructed unified treatment of all parts of neutron stars: the outer crust, the inner crust and the core…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-31 A. Li , J. M. Dong , J. B. Wang , R. X. Xu

Braking index measurements offer the opportunity to explore the processes affecting the long-term spin evolution of pulsars and possible evolutionary connections between the various pulsar populations. For young pulsars the long-term trends…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-18 C. M. Espinoza , A. G. Lyne , B. W. Stappers

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

The ~10^4 y old Vela Pulsar represents the bridge between the young Crab-like and the middle-aged rotation powered pulsars. Its multiwavelength behaviour is due to the superposition of different spectral components. We take advantage of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Manzali , A. De Luca , P. A. Caraveo

The pulsar glitches are generally assumed to be an apparent manifestation of the superfluid interior of the neutron stars. Most of them were discovered and extensively studied by continuous monitoring in the radio wavelengths. The Fermi-LAT…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-20 E. V. Sokolova , A. G. Panin

H.E.S.S. is currently the most sensitive instrument in the very-high-energy gamma-ray domain and has revealed many new sources along the Galactic Plane, a significant fraction of which seems to be associated with energetic pulsars. HESS…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 M. Renaud , S. Hoppe , N. Komin , E. Moulin , V. Marandon , A. -C. Clapson

We present high time resolution observations of single pulses from the Vela pulsar (PSR B0833-45) made with a baseband recording system at observing frequencies of 660 and 1413 MHz. We have discovered two startling features in the 1413 MHz…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Simon Johnston , Willem van Straten , Michael Kramer , Matthew Bailes

MeerKAT imaging of the globular cluster 47 Tucanae (47 Tuc) reveals 1.28 GHz continuum emission at the locations of 20 known millisecond pulsars (MSPs). We use time series and spectral imaging to investigate the image-domain characteristics…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-19 Ian Heywood

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

Rotation-powered pulsars are excellent laboratories for study of particle acceleration as well as fundamental physics of strong gravity, strong magnetic fields, high densities and relativity. I will review the outstanding questions in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Alice K. Harding

The pulsar search was started at the radio telescope LPA LPI at the frequency 111~MHz. The first results deals of a search for right ascension $0^h - 24^h$ and declinations $+21^{\circ} - +42^{\circ}$ are presented in paper. The data with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-19 S. A. Tyul'bashev , V. S. Tyul'bashev , V. V. Oreshko , S. V. Logvinenko

Solar observations at sub-THz frequencies detected a new flare spectral component peaking in the THz range, simultaneously with the well known microwaves component, bringing challenging constraints for interpretation. Higher THz frequencies…

High resolution, pulse to pulse observation of the 2016 Vela glitch and its relaxation provided an opportunity to probe the neutron star internal structure and dynamics with unprecedented detail. We use the observations of this glitch to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-08 Erbil Gügercinoğlu , M. Ali Alpar

Pulsars are rotating neutron stars that are renowned for their timing precision, although glitches can interrupt the regular timing behavior when these stars are young. Glitches are thought to be caused by interactions between normal and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-29 Wynn C. G. Ho , Cristobal M. Espinoza , Danai Antonopoulou , Nils Andersson

A variety of pulsar studies, ranging from high precision astrometry to tests for theories of gravity, require high time resolution data. Few such observations at more than two frequencies below 1 GHz are available. Giant Meterwave Radio…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bhal Chandra Joshi , Sunil Ramakrishna