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We propose that in some pulsars the magnetosphere has different states with different geometries or/and different distributions of currents, it occasionally switches between them. These states have different spindown rates and emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-11-11 A. N. Timokhin

We present high signal-to-noise ratio, multi-frequency polarization pulse profiles for 24 millisecond pulsars that are being observed as part of the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array (PPTA) project. The pulsars are observed in three bands, centred…

Polarization profiles are presented for 20 millisecond pulsars that are being observed as part of the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array project. The observations used the Parkes multibeam receiver with a central frequency of 1369 MHz and the…

Flux density measurements provide fundamental observational parameters that describe a pulsar. In the current pulsar catalogue, 27% of radio pulsars have no flux density measurement in the 20 cm observing band. Here, we present the first…

The PULSE@Parkes project has been designed to monitor the rotation of radio pulsars over time spans of days to years. The observations are obtained using the Parkes 64-m and 12-m radio telescopes by Australian and international high school…

We present polarisation profiles for 48 southern pulsars observed with the new 10-cm receiver at the Parkes telescope. We have exploited the low system temperature and high bandwidth of the receiver to obtain profiles which have good signal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Karastergiou , S. Johnston , R. N. Manchester

Many radio pulsars have stable pulse profiles, but some exhibit mode changing where the profile switches between two or more quasi-stable modes of emission. So far, these effects had only been seen in relatively slow pulsars, but we show…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-31 Nikhil Mahajan , Marten H. van Kerkwijk , Robert Main , Ue-Li Pen

It is now known that the emission from radio pulsars can vary over a wide range of timescales, from fractions of seconds to decades. However, it is not yet known if long- and short-term emission variability are caused by the same physical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-28 Paul Brook , Aris Karastergiou , Simon Johnston

We present an analysis of 4 nulling pulsars with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). For PSR J1649+2533, our results suggest mode changing rather than subpulse drifting as previously reported at lower…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-07 Jingbo Wang , Jintao Xie , Jing Zou , Jianfei Tang

Efforts are underway to use high-precision timing of pulsars in order to detect low-frequency gravitational waves. A limit to this technique is the timing noise generated by dispersion in the plasma along the line of sight to the pulsar,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-04 P. Kumar , S. M. White , K. Stovall , J. Dowell , G. B. Taylor

The young pulsar PSR B1828-11 has long been known to show correlated shape and spin-down changes with timescales of roughly 500 and 250 days, perhaps associated with large-scale magnetospheric switching. Here we present multi-hour…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-13 I. H. Stairs , A. G. Lyne , M. Kramer , B. W. Stappers , J. van Leeuwen , A. Tung , R. N Manchester , G. B. Hobbs , D. R. Lorimer , A. Melatos

We present a single pulse study of pulsar B1944+17, whose non-random nulls dominate nearly 70% of its pulses and usually occur at mode boundaries. When not in the null state, this pulsar displays four bright modes of emission, three of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-07-13 Isabel M. Kloumann , Joanna M. Rankin

We present a census of 100 pulsars, the largest below 100 MHz, including 94 normal pulsars and six millisecond pulsars, with the Long Wavelength Array (LWA). Pulse profiles are detected across a range of frequencies from 26 to 88 MHz,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-31 Pratik Kumar , Greg B. Taylor , Kevin Stovall , Jayce Dowell , Stephen M. White

Measurement of accurate positions, pulse periods and period derivatives is an essential follow-up to any pulsar survey. The procedures being used to obtain timing parameters for the pulsars discovered in the Parkes multibeam pulsar survey…

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

In this paper, we investigate the emission properties of PSR J1727-2739, whose mean pulse profile has two main components, by analysing five single-pulse observations made using the Parkes 64-m radio telescope with a central frequency of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-22 Rukiye Rejep , N. Wang , W. M. Yan , Z. G. Wen

We have observed 123 pulsars with periods longer than 0.1 seconds in the Meterwavelength Single-pulse Polarimetric Emission Survey. In this work a detailed study of polarization behaviour of these pulsars have been carried out. We were able…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-02 Dipanjan Mitra , George I. Melikidze , Rahul Basu

Sensitive Arecibo observations provide an unprecedented ability to detect nulls for an accurate pulse-modulation quelling (PMQ) analysis. We demonstrate that a number of conal pulsars show "periodic nulling" similar to the phenomenon found…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jeffrey Herfindal , Joanna Rankin

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

The phenomenon of profile mode switching in pulsars, where the stable average pulse profile changes to another stable state on the timescale of a pulsar's period, remains poorly understood. We sought to understand how pulsars undergo…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-13 Casey Brinkman , Dipanjan Mitra , Joanna Rankin