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We present an X-ray eclipse timing analysis of the transient low mass X-ray binary XTE J1710-281. We report observations of 57 complete X-ray eclipses, made with the proportional counter array detectors aboard the RXTE satellite. Using the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Chetana Jain , Biswajit Paul

The Be/X-ray binary pulsar RX J0440.9+4431 went through a giant outburst in December 2022 with a peak flux of $\sim$2.3 Crab in 15--50 keV. We studied the broad-band timing and spectral properties of RX J0440.9+4431 using four $AstroSat$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-18 Rahul Sharma , Manoj Mandal , Sabyasachi Pal , Biswajit Paul , G. K. Jaisawal , Ajay Ratheesh

We present updated measurements of the Crab pulsar glitch of 2019 July 23 using a dataset of pulse arrival times spanning $\sim$5 months. On MJD 58687, the pulsar underwent its seventh largest glitch observed to date, characterised by an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-21 B. Shaw , M. J. Keith , A. G. Lyne , M. B. Mickaliger , B. W. Stappers , J. D. Turner , P. Weltevrede

We report observations of Crab giant pulses made with the Australia Telescope Compact Array and a baseband recorder system, made simultaneously at two frequencies, 1300 and 1470 MHz. These observations were sensitive to pulses with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. D. Ramesh Bhat , Steven J. Tingay , Haydon S. Knight

We present a study of shape, spectra and polarization properties of giant pulses (GPs) from the Crab pulsar at the very high frequencies of 8.5 and 15.1 GHz. Studies at 15.1 GHz were performed for the first time. Observations were conducted…

The abrupt change in the pulse period of a pulsar is called a pulsar glitch. In this paper, we present eleven pulsar glitches detected using the Ooty Radio Telescope (ORT) and the upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (uGMRT) in high…

We report on the full analysis of a Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) Proportional Counter Array (PCA) monitoring of the {\gamma}-ray binary system LS I +61 303. The data set covers 42 contiguous cycles of the system orbital motion.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Jian Li , Diego F. Torres , Shu Zhang , Yupeng Chen , Daniela Hadasch , Paul S. Ray , Peter Kretschmar , Nanda Rea , Jianmin Wang

Rotating radio transients (RRATs) are a sub-class of pulsars characterized by sporadic emission and thus can generally only be studied by analysis of their single-pulses. Here we present a single-pulse analysis using 11 years of timing data…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-26 Brent Shapiro-Albert , Maura McLaughlin , Evan Keane

We present the calibration and background model for the Proportional Counter Array (PCA) aboard the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE). The energy calibration is systematics limited below 10 keV with deviations from a power-law fit to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-15 K. Jahoda , C. B. Markwardt , Y. Radeva , A. Rots , M. J. Stark , J. H. Swank , T. E. Strohmayer , W. Zhang

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…

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

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. A. Eilek , T. H. Hankins

We have studied the statistics of giant pulses from the Crab pulsar for the first time with particular reference to their widths. We have analyzed data collected during 3.5 hours of observations conducted with the Westerbork Synthesis Radio…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. V. Popov , B. Stappers

Our high time resolution observations of individual pulses from the Crab pulsar show that the main pulse and interpulse differ in temporal behavior, spectral behavior, polarization and dispersion. The main pulse properties are consistent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 J. A. Eilek , T. H. Hankins

RX J0440.9+4431, a Be/X-ray binary, had its brightest outburst in 2022 since its discovery, with a peak X-ray flux of 2.25 Crab (as recorded by Swift/BAT, 15-50 keV). We analyze the timing properties of this giant outburst using data from…

We report results from simultaneous radio and X-ray observations of PSR B0611+22 which is known to exhibit bursting in its single-pulse emission. The pulse phase of the bursts vary with radio frequency. The bursts are correlated in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-31 Kaustubh Rajwade , Andrew Seymour , Duncan R Lorimer , Aris Karastergiou , Maciej Serylak , Maura A McLaughlin , Jean M Griessmeier

Simultaneous multifrequency observations of the Crab pulsar giant pulses (GPs) were performed with the 64-m Kalyazin radio telescope at four frequencies 0.6, 1.4, 2.2 and 8.3 GHz using the K5 VLBI recording terminal. The K5 terminal…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 M. V. Popov , V. A. Soglasnov , V. I. Kondratiev , A. V. Bilous , O. Moshkina , V. V. Oreshko , Yu. P. Ilyasov , M. Sekido , T. Kondo

The Crab pulsar (PSR B0531+21) provides an unusually rich test bed for statistical studies of high-energy photon-counting data, owing to its extreme brightness and the contrasting behavior of its main pulse (MP) and interpulse (IP)…

In October 1997 daily monitoring observations of the Crab pulsar at 327 MHz and 610 MHz with an 85ft telescope in Green Bank, WV showed a jump in the dispersion by 0.12 cm^{-3} pc. Pulses were seen simultaneously at both old and new…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 D. C. Backer

The Fermi space telescope has detected over 100 pulsars. These discoveries have ushered in a new era of pulsar astrophysics at gamma-ray energies. Gamma-ray pulsars, regardless of whether they are young, old, radio-quiet etc, all exhibit a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 A. McCann

The Crab nebula is so far the only celestial object with a statistically significant detection in soft x-ray polarimetry, a window that has not been explored in astronomy since the 1970s. However, soft x-ray polarimetry is expected to be a…