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We report the observations of single pulse emission from the pulsar B0809+74 at 150 MHz using the Polish LOFAR station, PL-611. The three major phenomena of subpulse drifting, nulling and mode changing associated with single pulse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-08 Rahul Basu , Wojciech Lewandowski , Jarosław Kijak , Bartosz Śmierciak , Marian Soida , Leszek Błaszkiewicz , Andrzej Krankowski

We develop a model for subpulse separation period, $P_2$, taking into account both the apparent motion of the visible point as a function of pulsar phase, $\psi$, and the possibility of abrupt jumps between different rotation states in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-06 R. Yuen , D. B. Melrose , M. A. Samsuddin , Z. Y. Tu , X. H. Han

During observations of the Galactic Plane Pulsar Snapshot (GPPS) survey by the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), varying subpulses drifting of PSR J1857+0057 is detected. The following-up observation confirms the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-12 Yi Yan , J. L. Han , C. Wang , P. F. Wang

We report the detection of pulse-to-pulse periodic intensity modulations, in observations of recycled pulsars. Even though the detection of individual pulses was generally not possible due to their low flux density and short duration,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. T. Edwards , B. W. Stappers

A large sample of about two hundred pulsars have been observed to study their subpulse modulation at an observing wavelength of (when achievable) both 21 and 92 cm using the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope. For 57 pulsars drifting…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Patrick Weltevrede , Ben Stappers , R. T. Edwards

We report on an analysis of the drifting subpulses of PSR B0320+39 that indicates a sudden step of ~180 degrees in subpulse phase near the centre of the pulse profile. The phase step, in combination with the attenuation of the periodic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 R. T. Edwards , B. W. Stappers , A. G. J. van Leeuwen

A large sample of pulsars has been observed to study their subpulse modulation at an observing wavelength (when achievable) of both 21 and 92 cm using the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope. In this paper we present the 92-cm data and a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Weltevrede , B. W. Stappers , R. T. Edwards

We performed simultaneous observations at 326.5 MHz with the Ooty Radio Telescope and at 326, 610 and 1308 MHz with the Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope for a sample of 12 pulsars, where frequency dependent single pulse behaviour was…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-02 Arun Naidu , Bhal Chandra Joshi , P. K Manoharan , M. A Krishnakumar

As one of the paradigm examples to probe into pulsar magnetospheric dynamics, PSR B0943+10 (J0946+0951) manifests representatively, showing mode switch, orthogonal polarization and subpulse drifting, frequently studied below 600 MHz. Here…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-19 Shunshun Cao , Jinchen Jiang , Jaroslaw Dyks , Longfei Hao , Kejia Lee , Zhixuan Li , Jiguang Lu , Zhichen Pan , Weiyang Wang , Zhengli Wang , Jiangwei Xu , Heng Xu , Renxin Xu

For many years it has been considered puzzling how pulsar radio emission, supposedly created by a circulating carousel of sub-beams, can produce the driftbands demonstrated by PSR J0815+09, and more recently PSR B1839-04, which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-23 Geoff Wright , Patrick Weltevrede

Interstellar scintillations of pulsars PSR B0809+74 and B0950+08 have been studied using observations at low frequencies (41, 62, 89, and 112 MHz). Characteristic temporal and frequency scales of diffractive scintillations at these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-31 T. V. Smirnova , V. I. Shishov

We report the discovery of a remarkable subpulse drift pattern in the relatively less studied wide profile pulsar, B0818-41, using high sensitivity GMRT observations. We find simultaneous occurrence of three drift regions with two different…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 B. Bhattacharyya , Y. Gupta , J. Gil , M. Sendyk

We consider the polarization properties of radiation emitted by relativistic charged particles while moving along the curved magnetic field lines in a pulsar manetosphere. We propose that the radiation emitted by positrons and electrons…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. T. Gangadhara

We report two phenomena detected in PSR J0344$-$0901 from two observations conducted at frequency centered at 1.25 GHz using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). The first phenomenon manifests as shifting in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-26 H. M. Tedila , R. Yuen , N. Wang , D. Li , Z. G. Wen , W. M. Yan , J. P. Yuan , X. H. Han , P. Wang , W. W. Zhu , S. J. Dang , S. Q. Wang , J. T. Xie , Q. D. Wu , Sh. Khasanov , FAST Collaboration

Both nulling and subpulse drifting are poorly understood phenomena. We probe their mechanisms by investigating how they interact in PSR B0809+74. We find that the subpulse drift is not aliased but directly reflects the actual motion of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. G. J. van Leeuwen , B. W. Stappers , R. Ramachandran , J. M. Rankin

In this paper, we present a study of orthogonal polarization modes in the radio emission of PSR B1133+16, conducted within the frame of simultaneous, multi-frequency, single-pulse observations. Simultaneously observing at two frequencies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Karastergiou , M. Kramer , S. Johnston , A. G. Lyne , N. D. R. Bhat , Y. Gupta

We report analysis of an 8 hr observation of PSR B0943+10 at 325 MHz performed at the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) in India. B0943+10 is well known for displaying regular sub-pulse drifting and two emission modes. We investigate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 Isaac Backus , Dipanjan Mitra , Joanna Rankin

Since their discovery more than 50 years ago, broadband radio studies of pulsars have generated a wealth of information about the underlying physics of radio emission. In order to gain some further insights into this elusive emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-21 K. M. Rajwade , B. B. P. Perera , B. W. Stappers , J. Roy , A. Karastergiou , J. M. Rankin

The pair of drifting subpulses of the radio pulsar PSR B0031-07 appear to be well separated from each other on the average, overlapping at less than one thirtieth of the peak energy. Strictly, the integrated profile of the pair (after…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Vivekanand , B. C. Joshi

We present the first results from a programme of multi-frequency simultaneous single pulse observations carried out as part of the European Pulsar Network. We detail the main data analysis methods and apply them to simultaneous observations…