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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

The Parkes telescope has been monitoring 286 radio pulsars approximately monthly since 2007 at an observing frequency of 1.4 GHz. The wide dispersion measure (DM) range of the pulsar sample and the uniformity of the observing procedure make…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-06 H. Kumamoto , S. Dai , S. Johnston , M. Kerr , R. M. Shannon , P. Weltevrede , C. Sobey , R. N. Manchester , G. Hobbs , K. Takahashi

Pulsar timing is used for a variety of applications including tests of fundamental physics, probing the structure of neutron stars, and detecting nanohertz gravitational waves. Development of robust methods and generation of high-quality…

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

Recent radio pulsar observations have shown that a number of pulsars display interesting long term periodicities in their spin-down rates. At least some of these pulsars also undergo sharp changes in pulse profile. This has been…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 D. I. Jones

We have observed a total of 67 pulsars at five frequencies ranging from 243 to 3100 MHz. Observations at the lower frequencies were made at the Giant Metre Wave Telescope in India and those at higher frequencies at the Parkes Telescope in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Simon Johnston , Aris Karastergiou , Dipanjan Mitra , Yashwant Gupta

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

Many pulsars in the known population exhibit nulling, which is characterised by a sudden cessation and subsequent restoration of radio emission. In this work, we present the localization, timing, and emission properties of a GHRSS…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-12 Shubham Singh , Jayanta Roy , Shyam Sunder , Bhaswati Bhattacharyya , Sanjay Kudale

We have carried out a study of the orthogonal polarisation mode behaviour as a function of frequency of 18 pulsars, using average pulsar data from the European Pulsar Network (EPN). Assuming that the radiation consists of two 100% polarised…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. M. Smits , B. W. Stappers , R. T. Edwards , J. Kuijpers , R. Ramachandran

At present three pulsars are known which clearly show a strongly increasing degree of circular polarization with frequency. As this is accompanied by a smooth decrease of linear polarization, we investigate, if this observation can be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexis von Hoensbroech , Harald Lesch

We report on the unique nulling properties of PSR B0818-41, using the GMRT at 325 and 610 MHz. We find following interesting behaviour just before and after the nulls: (i) The pulsar's intensity does not switch off abruptly at the null, but…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Bhaswati Bhattacharyya , Yashwant Gupta , Janusz Gil

We report a detailed observational study of the single pulses from the pulsar J1822$-$2256. The pulsar shows the presence of subpulse drifting, nulling as well as multiple emission modes. During these observations the pulsar existed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-21 Rahul Basu , Dipanjan Mitra

A number of pulsars are known to have profile evolution on timescales of months, often correlated with spin-down rate changes. Here, we present the first result from 3 years of monitoring observations from MeerKAT as part of the Thousand…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-15 A. Basu , P. Weltevrede , M. J. Keith , S. Johnston , A. Karastergiou , L. S. Oswald , B. Posselt , X. Song , A. D. Cameron

Pulsar timing has enabled some of the strongest tests of fundamental physics. Central to the technique is the assumption that the detected radio pulses can be used to accurately measure the rotation of the pulsar. Here we report on a…

We present average flux density measurements of 151 radio pulsars at 1.4 GHz with the Parkes 'Murriyang' radio telescope. We recommend our results be included in the next version of the ATNF pulsar catalogue. The large sample of pulsars…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-25 Ziyang Wang , Jingbo Wang , Na Wang , Shi Dai , Jintao Xie

We report detailed investigation of nulling and drifting behavior of two pulsars PSRs J1741-0840 and J1840-0840 observed from the Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope at 625 MHz. PSR J1741-840 was found to show nulling fraction (NF) of around…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-27 Gajjar Vishal , J. P. Yuan , R. Yuen , Z. G. Wen , Z. Y. Liu , N. Wang

We present the results of a systematic, unbiased search for subpulse modulation of 187 pulsars performed with the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT) in the Netherlands at an observing wavelength of 21 cm. Using new observations and…

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

A large sample of pulsars was observed as part of the Meterwavelength Single-pulse Polarimetric Emission Survey. We carried out a detailed fluctuation spectral analysis which revealed periodic features in 46% pulsars including 22 pulsars…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-14 Rahul Basu , Dipanjan Mitra , George I. Melikidze , Krzysztof Maciesiak , Anna Skrzypczak , Andrzej Szary

Pulsars are known to manifest complex phenomena, such as nulling, sub-pulse drifting, and periodicity. Within the purview of this investigation, we have harnessed the wavelet analysis technique to scrutinize the multifaceted periodicities…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-19 Peng-Fu Tian , Ping Zhang , Wen Yang , Wei Wang , Pei Wang

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