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We report results of one of the most sensitive pulsar surveys to date targeting the innermost region of the Galactic Center (GC) using the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) at X-band (8--12GHz) using data from the Breakthrough…

The Galactic Center is an excellent laboratory for studying phenomena and physical processes that may be occurring in many other galactic nuclei. The Center of our Milky Way is by far the closest galactic nucleus, and observations with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 Reinhard Genzel , Frank Eisenhauer , Stefan Gillessen

Discovery of pulsars is one of the main goals for large radio telescopes. The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), that incorporates an L-band 19-beam receiver with a system temperature of about 20~K, is the most…

Stars orbiting within 1$\arcsec$ of the supermassive black hole in the Galactic Centre, Sgr A*, are notoriously difficult to detect due to obscuration by gas and dust. We show that some stars orbiting this region may be detectable via…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-28 Idan Ginsburg , Xiawei Wang , Abraham Loeb , Ofer Cohen

We report detections of scintillation arcs for pulsars in globular clusters M5, M13 and M15 for the first time using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). From observations of these arcs at multiple epochs, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-14 Dandan Zhang , Zhenzhao Tao , Mao Yuan , Jumei Yao , Pei Wang , Qijun Zhi , Weiwei Zhu , Xun Shi , Michael Kramer , Di Li , Lei Zhang , Guangxing Li

The search of pulsars in monitoring observations being carried out for 5 years using LPA LPI radio telescope was done in 96 spatial beams covering daily 17,000 square degrees. Five new pulsars were detected. Candidates into pulsars were…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-21 S. A. Tyul'bashev , M. A. Kitaeva , V. S. Tyul'bashev , V. M. Malofeev , G. E. Tyul'basheva

The Parkes multibeam pulsar survey is a sensitive survey of a strip along the Galactic plane with |b|<5 deg and l=260 deg to l=50 deg. It uses a 13-beam receiver on the 64-m Parkes radio telescope, receiving two polarisations per beam over…

The high-frequency radio sky is bursting with synchrotron transients from massive stellar explosions and accretion events, but the low-frequency radio sky has so far been quiet beyond the Galactic pulsar population and the long-term…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-12 N. Hurley-Walker , X. Zhang , A. Bahramian , S. J. McSweeney , T. N. O'Doherty , P. J. Hancock , J. S. Morgan , G. E. Anderson , G. H. Heald , T. J. Galvin

We study the gamma-ray emission from millisecond pulsars within the Milky Way's globular cluster system in order to measure the luminosity function of this source population. We find that these pulsars have a mean luminosity of $\langle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-25 Aurelio Amerio , Dan Hooper , Tim Linden

Pulsars in the Galactic Center (GC) are important probes of General Relativity, star formation, stellar dynamics, stellar evolution, and the interstellar medium. Despite years of searching, only a handful of pulsars in the central 0.5 deg…

We summarize the current state of polarization observations of Sagittarius A*, the compact radio source and supermassive black hole candidate in the Galactic Center. These observations are providing new tools for understanding accretion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Geoffrey C. Bower

The absolute position of the compact radio source at the dynamical center of the Galaxy, Sgr A$^*$, was known only to an accuracy of $0.2''$ in spite of its accurate location with respect to near-IR stellar sources to within 30…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Yusef-Zadeh , D. Choate , W. Cotton

The central region of the Galaxy has been observed at 580, 620 and 1010 MHz with the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT). We detect emission from Sgr-A*, the compact object at the dynamical centre of the Galaxy, and estimate its flux…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Subhashis Roy , A. Pramesh Rao

Temporal scatter-broadening can seriously affect our ability to find pulsars orbiting the central mass in our Galaxy. Many of these invaluable probes of geometry around the black hole are expected, but none have been found in close orbits…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-01-20 Olaf Wucknitz

We have surveyed 68 deg^2 along the Galactic Plane for single, dispersed radio pulses. Each of 3027 independent pointings was observed for 68 s using the Arecibo telescope at 430 MHz. Spectra were collected at intervals of 0.5 ms and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 D. J. Nice

We examine the nHz gravitational wave (GW) foreground of stars and black holes (BHs) orbiting SgrA* in the Galactic Center. A cusp of stars and BHs generates a continuous GW spectrum below 40 nHz; individual BHs within 1 mpc to SgrA* stick…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 Bence Kocsis , Alak Ray , Simon Portegies Zwart

We have observed the Galactic Center (GC) region at 0.154 and 0.255 GHz with the GMRT. A total of 62 compact likely extragalactic sources are detected. Their scattering sizes go down linearly with increasing angular distance from the GC up…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 Subhashis Roy

Over a two year period (1995-1997), we have conducted a diffraction-limited imaging study at 2.2 microns of the inner 6"x6" of the Galaxy's central stellar cluster using the Keck 10-m telescope. The K band images obtained reveal a large…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 A. M. Ghez , B. L. Klein , M. Morris , E. E. Becklin

The evidence for the presence of a concentration of dark matter at the Galactic center is now very compelling. There is no question that the stellar and gas kinematics within 0.01 pc is dominated by under-luminous matter in the form of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Fulvio Melia , Robert Coker

Here we report on a new survey for pulsars and transients in the 10 pc region around Sgr A* using the Effelsberg radio telescope at frequencies between 4 to 8 GHz. Our calibrated full-Stokes data were searched for pulsars and transients…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-11 G. Desvignes , R. P. Eatough , Y. Men , F. Abbate , R. Karuppusamy , M. Kramer , K. Liu , L. Shao , P. Torne , R. S. Wharton