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The phenomenon of pulsar nulling, where pulsars temporarily and stochastically cease their radio emission, is thought to be indicative of a `dying' pulsar, where radio emission ceases entirely. Here we report the discovery of a long-period…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-30 G. Grover , N. D. R. Bhat , S. McSweeney , C. P. Lee , B. W. Meyers , C. M. Tan , S. S. Kudale

In recent years periodic amplitude modulation has emerged as a unique emission feature in the single pulse sequence of pulsars alongside periodic nulling and subpulse drifting. Despite ample evidence for the uniqueness of this phenomenon,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-05 Rahul Basu , Dipanjan Mitra , George I. Melikidze

The phenomenon of sub-pulse drifting is an important single-pulse phenomenon that can potentially provide important insights into the elusive radio emission mechanism in pulsars. We analyze the frequency behaviour of the single pulses of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-26 Samuel J. McSweeney , Lisa Smith , N. D. Ramesh Bhat , Geoff Wright

The ``drifting'' subpulses exhibited by some radio pulsars have fascinated both observers and theorists for 30 years, and have been widely regarded as one of the most critical and potentially insightful aspects of their emission. Here, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Avinash A. Deshpande , Joanna M. Rankin

We establish that for PSR B0031-07 the orthogonal polarization modes switch at a single pulse level synchronously with the periodic drifting subpulses seen in total intensity. There are only four other pulsars known for which this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Cristina D. Ilie , Patrick Weltevrede , Simon Johnston , Tianyue Chen

We report on the pulse-to-pulse energy distributions and phase-resolved modulation properties for catalogued pulsars in the southern High Time Resolution Universe intermediate-latitude survey. We selected the 315 pulsars detected in a…

Aims. To make a detailed study of the nulling and subpulse drifting in PSR J1727$-$2739 for investigation of its radiation properties. Methods. The observations were carried out on 20 March, 2004 using the Parkes 64-m radio telescope, with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-17 Z. G. Wen , N. Wang , J. P. Yuan , W. M. Yan , R. N. Manchester , R. Yuen , V. Gajjar

The beautiful sequences of ``drifting'' subpulses observed in some radio pulsars have been regarded as among the most salient and potentially instructive characteristics of their emission, not least because they have appeared to represent a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Avinash A. Deshpande , Joanna M. Rankin

Pulsar glitches are rapid spin-up events that occur in the rotation of neutron stars, providing a valuable probe into the physics of the interiors of these objects. Long-term monitoring of a large number of pulsars facilitates the detection…

In a search for periodic variation in the arrival times of pulses from 151 young, energetic pulsars, we have identified seven cases of modulation consistent with one or two harmonics of a single fundamental with time-scale 0.5-1.5 yr. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-19 Matthew Kerr , George Hobbs , Simon Johnston , Ryan Shannon

The low frequency (110--180 MHz) capabilities of the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT) are used to characterise a large collection of single pulses from three low magnetic field pulsars. Using the Pulsar Machine II (PuMa-II) to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 Ramesh Karuppusamy , Ben Stappers , Maciej Serylak

We introduce a model for pulsars in which non-radial oscillations of high spherical degree (l) aligned to the magnetic axis of a spinning neutron star reproduce the morphological features of pulsar beams. In our model, rotation of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Christopher Clemens , R. Rosen

We present the largest single survey to date of average profiles of radio pulsars, observed and processed using the same telescope and data reduction software. Specifically, we present measurements for 1170 pulsars, observed by the Thousand…

The drift periods P2 and P3 were searched for using the summed power spectra of 41 pulsars observed at declinations from -9o to +42o. The power spectra of pulses with a given period, pulse width and drift behavior have been simulated, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-17 T. V. Smirnova , S. A. Tyul'bashev , M. A. Kitaeva , V. M. Malofeev

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

We study the spindown of pulsars due to gravitational wave emission and show that r-modes in neutron stars provide a quantitative explanation for the observed low rotation frequencies of young pulsars if the r-mode saturation amplitude is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-13 Mark G. Alford , Kai Schwenzer

$\sim 6\%$ of all known pulsars have been observed to exhibit sudden spin-up events, known as glitches. For more than fifty years, these phenomena have played an important role in helping to understand pulsar (astro)physics. Based on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-28 Shiqi Zhou , Erbil Gügercinoğlu , Jianping Yuan , Mingyu Ge , Cong Yu

PSR B0818-41 is one of the few pulsars which show multiple drift regions having well defined phase relationship. In this paper we report new results from the multifrequency GMRT observations of this pulsar. Significant linear polarization…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Bhaswati Bhattacharyya , Yashwant Gupta , Janusz Gil

The smooth spin-down of young pulsars is perturbed by two non-deterministic phenomenon, glitches and timing noise. Although the timing noise provides insights into nuclear and plasma physics at extreme densities, it acts as a barrier to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-25 A. Parthasarathy , R. M. Shannon , S. Johnston , L. Lentati , M. Bailes , S. Dai , M. Kerr , R. N. Manchester , S. Oslowski , C. Sobey , W. van Straten , P. Weltevrede

We report on a timing programme of 74 young pulsars that have been observed by the Parkes 64-m radio telescope over the past decade. Using modern Bayesian timing techniques, we have measured the properties of 124 glitches in 52 of these…