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The rotation of more than 700 pulsars has been monitored using the 76-m Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank. Here we report on a new search for glitches in the observations, revealing 128 new glitches in the rotation of 63 pulsars. Combining…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-18 Cristobal M. Espinoza , Andrew G. Lyne , Ben W. Stappers , Michael Kramer

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

The carousel model of pulsar emission attributes the phenomenon of subpulse drifting to a set of discrete sparks located very near the stellar surface rotating around the magnetic axis. Here, we investigate the subpulse drifting behaviour…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-25 S. J. McSweeney , N. D. R. Bhat , G. Wright , S. E. Tremblay , 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

Using pulsewidth data for 872 isolated radio pulsars we test the hypothesis that pulsars evolve through a progressive narrowing of the emission cone combined with progressive alignment of the spin and magnetic axes. The new data provide…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 Matthew D. T. Young , Lee S. Chan , Ron R. Burman , David G. Blair

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

We analyse dispersion measure (DM) variations in six years of radio observations of more than 160 young pulsars, all gamma ray candidates for the Fermi gamma ray telescope mostly located close to the Galactic plane. DMs were fit across 256…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 E. Petroff , M. J. Keith , S. Johnston , W. van Straten , R. M. Shannon

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

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

We derive the exact drift velocity of plasma in the pulsar polar cap, in contrast to the order-of-magnitude expressions presented by Ruderman & Sutherland (1975) and generally used throughout the literature. We emphasize that the drift…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 J. van Leeuwen , A. N. Timokhin

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

The unique and highly unusual drift feature reported for PSR J0815+0939, wherein one component's subpulses drift in the direction opposite of the general trend, is a veritable challenge to pulsar theory. In this paper, we observationally…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-27 Andrzej Szary , Joeri van Leeuwen

The classical vacuum gap model of Ruderman & Sutherland, in which spark-associated subbeams of subpulse emission circulate around the magnetic axis due to the EB drift, provides a natural and plausible physical mechanism of the subpulse…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Janusz Gil , George I. Melikidze , Ulrich Geppert

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…

Arecibo observations of the conal triple pulsar B1918+19 at 0.327- and 1.4-GHz are used to analyse its subpulse behaviour in detail. We confirm the presence of three distinct drift modes (A,B,C) plus a disordered mode (N) and show that they…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Joanna M. Rankin , Geoffrey A. E. Wright , Andrew M. Brown

We have analyzed 5.5 years of timing observations of 7 'slowly' rotating radio pulsars, made with the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope. We present improved timing solutions and 30, mostly small, new glitches. Particularly interesting…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 G. H. Janssen , B. W. Stappers

In this study, we report on a detailed single pulse polarimetric analysis of the radio emission from the pulsar J2321+6024 (B2319+60) observed with the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope, over wide frequencies ranging between 300 to 500 MHz…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-15 Sk. Minhajur Rahaman , Rahul Basu , Dipanjan Mitra , George I. Melikidze

We report on timing and single-pulse observations of 17 pulsars discovered at the Arecibo observatory. The highlights of our sample are the recycled pulsars J1829+2456, J1944+0907 and the drifting subpulses observed in PSR J0815+0939. For…

We present phase-connected timing ephemerides, polarization pulse profiles and Faraday rotation measurements of 12 pulsars discovered by the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) in the Commensal Radio Astronomy FAST…

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…