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We report the discovery of a young, highly scattered pulsar in a search for highly circularly polarized radio sources as part of the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) Variables and Slow Transients (VAST) survey. In…

We report the detection of probable optical counterparts for two Intermediate Mass Binary Pulsar (IMBP) systems, PSR J1528-3146 and PSR J1757-5322. Recent radio pulsar surveys have uncovered a handful of these systems with putative massive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 B. A. Jacoby , D. Chakrabarty , M. H. van Kerkwijk , S. R. Kulkarni , D. L. Kaplan

In a search of the unidentified Fermi gamma-ray source 3FGL J1417.5-4402 with the Parkes radio telescope, we discovered PSR J1417-4402, a 2.66 ms pulsar having the same 5.4 day orbital period as the optical and X-ray binary identified by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-23 F. Camilo , J. E. Reynolds , S. M. Ransom , J. P. Halpern , S. Bogdanov , M. Kerr , P. S. Ray , J. M. Cordes , J. Sarkissian , E. D. Barr , E. C. Ferrara

We report on a timing and spectral analysis of the young, high magnetic field rotation-powered pulsar (RPP) B1509-58 using Chandra continuous-clocking mode observation. The pulsar's X-ray light curve can be fit by the two Gaussian…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-12 Chin-Ping Hu , C. -Y. Ng , J. Takata , R. M. Shannon , S. Johnston

We have detected a strong deflection of radio waves from the pulsar PSR B0834+06 in scintillation observations. Interference between the undeflected pulsar image and deflected subimages allows single dish interferometry of the interstellar…

The major programme for observing young, non-recycled pulsars with the Parkes telescope has transitioned from a narrow-band system to an ultra-wideband system capable of observing between 704 and 4032 MHz. We report here on the initial two…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-10 Simon Johnston , C. Sobey , S. Dai , M. Keith , M. Kerr , R. N. Manchester , L. S. Oswald , A. Parthasarathy , R. M. Shannon , P. Weltevrede

We report the first successful measurement (with HST/WFPC2) of a significant proper motion for a V~ 25 object which we had proposed as the optical counterpart of the radio pulsar PSR B0656+14. The yearly displacement of 43+/- 2 mas is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. P. Mignani , A. DeLuca , P. A. Caraveo

We performed simultaneous observations at 326.5 MHz with the Ooty Radio Telescope and at 326, 610 and 1308 MHz with the Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope for a sample of 12 pulsars, where frequency dependent single pulse behaviour was…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-02 Arun Naidu , Bhal Chandra Joshi , P. K Manoharan , M. A Krishnakumar

PSR J1357$-$6429 is a young and energetic radio pulsar detected in X-rays and $\gamma$-rays. It powers a compact pulsar wind nebula with a jet visible in X-rays and a large scale plerion detected in X-ray and TeV ranges. Previous…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-11 A. Kirichenko , Yu. Shibanov , P. Shternin , S. Johnston , M. A. Voronkov , A. Danilenko , D. Barsukov , D. Lai , D. Zyuzin

The Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer ({\sl RXTE}) has made hundreds of observations on three famous young pulsars (PSRs) B0531+21 (Crab), B1509-58, and B0540-69. Using the archive {\sl RXTE} data, we have studied the phase-resolved spectral…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-04-11 M. Y. Ge , F. J. Lu , J. L. Qu , S. J. Zheng , Y. Chen , D. W. Han

Using the Parkes radio telescope, we have searched for pulsed radio emission from the recently discovered X-ray pulsars AX J1811.5-1926 and PSR J0537-6910 in the supernova remnants G11.2-0.3 and N157B, respectively. We detected no…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Crawford , V. M. Kaspi , R. N. Manchester , F. Camilo , A. G. Lyne , N. D'Amico

High time resolution observations of PSR B0906-49 (or PSR J0908-4913) over a wide range of frequencies have enabled us to determine the geometry and beam shape of the pulsar. We have used the position angle traverse to determine…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Kramer , S. Johnston

SN 1987A offered a unique opportunity to detect a pulsar at the very beginning of its life and to study its early evolution. Despite many searches at radio and optical wavelengths, no pulsar has yet been detected. Details of a recent search…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 R. N. Manchester

The longitude separation between adjacent drifting subpulses, $P_2$, is roughly constant for many pulsars. It was then perplexing when pulsar B0809+74 was found to exhibit substantial variations in this measure, both with wavelength and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Joanna M. Rankin , R. Ramachandran , Svetlana A. Suleymanova

We present new results of timing and single pulse measurements for 18 radio pulsars discovered in 1993 - 1997 by the Penn State/NRL declination-strip survey conducted with the 305-m Arecibo telescope at 430 MHz. Long-term timing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 W. Lewandowski , A. Wolszczan , G. Feiler , M. Konacki , T. Soltysinski

We have discovered the pulsar associated with the supernova remnant G21.5-0.9. PSR J1833-1034, with spin period P = 61.8 ms and dispersion measure 169 pc/cc, is very faint, with pulse-averaged flux density of approximately 70 microJy at a…

Recent optical astrometric and spectroscopic surveys have identified numerous neutron star (NS) candidates in non-accreting detached binary systems, but their compact-object nature remains unconfirmed. In this work, we present targeted…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-26 Shi-Jie Gao , Xiang-Dong Li , Song Wang , Kareem El-Badry , De-Jiang Zhou , Yi-Xuan Shao , Zhen Yan , Pei Wang , Ping Zhou , Jin-Lin Han

We have detected significant X-ray emission from the direction of the young radio pulsar PSR J1105-6107 using the ASCA Observatory. The 11 sigma detection includes 460 background-subtracted source counts derived using data from all four…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 E. V. Gotthelf , V. M. Kaspi

We have monitored Supernova 1987A in optical/near-infrared bands from a few weeks following its birth until the present time in order to search for a pulsar remnant. We have found an apparent pattern of emission near the frequency of 467.5…

We have detected pulsed X-ray emission from the fastest millisecond pulsar known, PSR B1937+21 (P=1.558 msec), with ASCA. The pulsar is detected as a point source above $\sim 1.7$ keV, with no indication of nebulosity. The source flux in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 M. Takahashi