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In 1996 during Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) observations of SGR 1900+14, the 89-s X-ray pulsar XTE J1906+09 was discovered. As a result of monitoring campaigns of SGR 1900+14, XTE J1906+09 was also monitored regularly in 1996…

We use four observations with the European VLBI network to measure the first precise radio parallax of the Crab Pulsar. We found two in-beam extragalactic sources just outside the Crab Nebula, with one bright enough to use as a background…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-02 Rebecca Lin , Marten H. van Kerkwijk , Franz Kirsten , Ue-Li Pen , Adam T. Deller

Individual giant radio pulses (GRPs) from the Crab pulsar last only a few microseconds. However, during that time they rank among the brightest objects in the radio sky reaching peak flux densities of up to 1500 Jy even at high radio…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Jessner , A. Slowikowska , B. Klein , H. Lesch , C. H. Jaroschek , G. Kanbach , T. H. Hankins

Giant pulses from Crab pulsar were observed together with Radioastron space radiotelescope, Global EVN radio telescopes and Kvazar-KVO VLBI stations to study the scattering effects in the ISM. Five observing sessions were conducted at 18 cm…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-06 Alexey Rudnitskiy , Mikhail Popov , Vladimir Soglasnov

The results of simultaneous multifrequency observations of giant radio pulses from the Crab pulsar, PSR B0531+21, at 23, 111, and 600 MHz are presented and analyzed. Giant pulses were detected at a frequency as low as 23 MHz for the first…

The observed spectra of 9 pulsars for which multiwavelength data are available from radio to $X$- or $\gamma$-ray bands (Crab, Vela, Geminga, B0656+14, B1055-52, B1509-58, B1706-44, B1929+10, and B1951+32) are compared with the spectrum of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-08-11 H. Ardavan , A. Ardavan , J. Singleton , J. Fasel , W. Junor , J. Middleditch , M. R. Perez , A. Schmidt , P. Sengupta , P. Volegov

We report pulsar timing observations carried out in L-band with NTSC's 40-meter Haoping Radio Telescope (HRT), which was constructed in 2014. The observations were carried out using the pulsar machine we developed. Timing observations…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-13 Jintao Luo , Yuping Gao , Tinggao Yang , Chengshi Zhao , Minglei Tong , Yongnan Rao , Yifeng Li , Bian Li , Xingzhi Zhu , Haihua Qiao , Xiaochun Lu

We observe an extraordinary link in the Crab pulsar between the enhancement of an optical pulse and the timing of the corresponding giant radio pulse. At optical through infrared wavelengths, our observations use the high time resolution of…

We are developing time- and energy-resolved near-IR/optical/UV photon detectors based on sharp superconducting-normal transition edges in thin films. We report observations of the Crab pulsar made during prototype testing at the McDonald…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Roger W. Romani , A. J. Miller , B. Cabrera , S. W. Nam , John M. Martinis

It has long been thought that the pulsed X-ray properties of rotation-powered pulsars are stable on long time scales. However, long-term, systematic studies of individual sources have been lacking. Furthermore, dramatic X-ray variability…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Margaret A. Livingstone , Victoria M. Kaspi

The Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer ({\sl RXTE}) has made hundreds of observations on three famous young pulsars (PSRs) B0531+21 (Crab), B1509-58, and B0540-69. Using the archive {\sl RXTE} data, we have studied the phase-resolved spectral…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-04-11 M. Y. Ge , F. J. Lu , J. L. Qu , S. J. Zheng , Y. Chen , D. W. Han

The hard X-ray bursts observed during both major outbursts of the Bursting Pulsar (GRO J1744-28) show pulsations near the neutron star spin frequency with an enhanced amplitude relative to that of the persistent emission. Consistent with…

The frequency dependence of normal pulsar radio emission is typically observed to be a power law, with some indications of a flattening or turnover at low frequencies ($<100$ MHz). The spectrum of the Crab pulsar's giant pulse emission has…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-07-13 B. W. Meyers , S. E. Tremblay , N. D. R. Bhat , R. M. Shannon

The Crab-like SNR G21.5-0.9 was observed in the X-ray band (0.5-10 keV) by the XMM-Newton satellite for over 100 ks. The large effective area of the EPIC instrument has allowed us to to perform a deep search for pulsations from the central…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 N. La Palombara , S. Mereghetti

Our high time resolution observations of individual pulses from the Crab pulsar show that both the time and frequency signatures of the interpulse are distinctly different from those of the main pulse. Main pulses can occasionally be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. H. Hankins , J. A. Eilek

In this paper we present our recent timing and spectral analysis of the X-ray pulsar 4U 1907+09. Our X-ray data consist of an extended set of RXTE & INTEGRAL observations that were analyzed before ({\c{S}}ahiner et al. 2012). From the X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-02-14 S. Sahiner , S. C. Inam , A. Baykal , U. Kiziloglu

Recent observations of the Crab pulsar by the Energetic Gamma-Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET) on the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory show that the high-energy gamma-ray light curve has changed little over the lifetime of the instrument.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 W. F. Tompkins , B. B. Jones , P. L. Nolan , G. Kanbach , P. V. Ramanamurthy , D. J. Thompson

X-ray observations of the accreting X-ray pulsar 4U~1907+09, obtained during February 1996 with the Proportional Counter Array on the Rossi X-ray Timing Experiment (RXTE), have enabled the first measurement of the intrinsic pulse period…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 J. J. M. in 't Zand , A. Baykal , T. E. Strohmayer

As part of a large-scale search for coherent pulsations from LMXBs in the RXTE archive, we have completed a detailed series of searches for coherent pulsations of 4U 1820-30 -- an ultracompact LMXB with a binary period of 11.4 minutes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Rim Dib , Scott Ransom , Paul Ray , Victoria kaspi

We have phase connected a sequence of RXTE PCA observations of SGR 1806-20 covering 178 days. We find a simple secular spin-down model does not adequately fit the data. The period derivative varies gradually during the observations between…