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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

This review describes the observational properties of radio pulsars, fast rotating neutron stars, emitting radio waves. After the introduction we give a list of milestones in pulsar research. The following chapters concentrate on pulsar…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-29 John H. Seiradakis , Richard Wielebinski

Pulsar timing is a foundational part of pulsar research to triage the most interesting systems and to characterise properties (rotational or otherwise) of the population of these extreme objects. Due to the efficiency of a number of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-25 D. J. McKenna , E. F. Keane , P. T. Gallagher , J. McCauley

Recently a data set containing linear and circular polarisation information of a collection of six hundred pulsars has been released. The operative radio wavelength for the same was 21 cm. Pulsars radio emission process is modelled either…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-11-11 Karam Chand , Subhayan Mandal

Modern pulsar surveys produce many millions of candidate pulsars, far more than can be individually inspected. Traditional methods for filtering these candidates, based upon the signal-to-noise ratio of the detection, cannot easily…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. J. Keith , R. P. Eatough , A. G. Lyne , M. Kramer , A. Possenti , F. Camilo , R. N. Manchester

We present first results from a LOFAR census of non-recycled pulsars. The census includes almost all such pulsars known (194 sources) at declinations ${\rm Dec}> 8^\circ$ and Galactic latitudes $|{\rm Gb}| > 3^\circ$, regardless of their…

We review the main properties, demographics and applications of binary and millisecond radio pulsars. Our knowledge of these exciting objects has greatly increased in recent years, mainly due to successful surveys which have brought the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 D. R. Lorimer

Pulsar polarization profiles are very basic database for understanding the emission processes in pulsar magnetosphere. After careful polarization calibration of the 19-beam L-band receiver and verification of beam-offset observation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-21 P. F. Wang , J. L. Han , J. Xu , C. Wang , Y. Yan , W. C. Jing , W. Q. Su , D. J. Zhou , T. Wang

Multi-messenger astrophysics will enable the discovery of new astrophysical neutrino sources and provide information about the mechanisms that drive these objects. We present a curated online catalog of astrophysical neutrino candidates.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-16 Chujie Chen , Charles Cardot

Pulsars are rapidly-rotating, highly-magnetized neutron stars emitting radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum. Although there are more than 1800 known radio pulsars, until recently, only seven were observed to pulse in gamma rays and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-09-07 LAT Collaboration

We have observed a total of 67 pulsars at five frequencies ranging from 243 to 3100 MHz. Observations at the lower frequencies were made at the Giant Metre Wave Telescope in India and those at higher frequencies at the Parkes Telescope in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Simon Johnston , Aris Karastergiou , Dipanjan Mitra , Yashwant Gupta

Approximate analytical formulae are derived for the pulse profile produced by small hot spots on a rapidly rotating neutron star. Its Fourier amplitudes and phases are calculated. The proposed formalism takes into account gravitational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Juri Poutanen , Andrei M. Beloborodov

The wealth of high-energy (E > 50 MeV) and very-high-energy (E > 100 GeV) data accumulated over the past few years have provided unprecedented opportunities to probe pulsar emission models. The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has now…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-03 Christo Venter

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

Image-based searches have become a complementary approach for identifying pulsars, particularly at MHz frequencies where scattering and high dispersion measures affect high-time resolution observations. In this work, we searched the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-04 Silvia Mantovanini , N. Hurley-Walker , G. Anderson , K. Ross , S. W. Duchesne , T. J. Galvin

We investigate the number and type of pulsars that will be discovered with the low-frequency radio telescope LOFAR. We consider different search strategies for the Galaxy, for globular clusters and for other galaxies. We show that a 25-day…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 Joeri van Leeuwen , Ben Stappers

Searching for radio pulsars typically requires a bespoke software pipeline to efficiently make new discoveries. In this paper we describe the search process, provide a tool for installing pulsar software, and give an example of a pulsar…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-05 M. J. Keith

Globular clusters produce orders of magnitude more millisecond pulsars per unit mass than the Galactic disk. Since the first cluster pulsar was uncovered twenty years ago, at least 138 have been identified - most of which are binary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Scott M. Ransom

Pulsar searches are computationally demanding efforts to discover dispersed periodic signals in time- and frequency-resolved data from radio telescopes. The complexity and computational expense of simultaneously determining the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-14 Lars Künkel , Rajat M. Thomas , Joris P. W. Verbiest

Pulsar search with time-domain observation is very computationally expensive and data volume will be enormous with the next generation telescopes such as the Square Kilometre Array. We apply artificial neural networks (ANNs), a machine…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-17 Naoyuki Yonemaru , Keitaro Takahashi , Hiroki Kumamoto , Shi Dai , Shintaro Yoshiura , Shinsuke Ideguchi