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We report on a time-domain search for pulsars in 44 steep spectrum radio sources originally identified from recent imaging surveys. The time-domain search was conducted at 327 MHz using the Ooty radio telescope, and utilized a semi-coherent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-05 Yogesh Maan , Cees Bassa , Joeri van Leeuwen , M. A. Krishnakumar , Bhal Chandra Joshi

The study of high-magnetic-field pulsars is important for examining the relationships between radio pulsars, magnetars, and X-ray-isolated neutron stars (XINSs). Here we report on X-ray observations of three such high-magnetic-field radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-09-18 S. A. Olausen , W. W. Zhu , J. K. Vogel , V. M. Kaspi , A. G. Lyne , C. M. Espinoza , B. W. Stappers , R. N. Manchester , M. A. McLaughlin

We have carried out a survey for `giant pulses' in 6 young, Vela-like pulsars. In no cases did we find single pulses with flux densities more than 10 times the mean flux density. However, in PSR B1706-44 we have detected giant micro-pulses…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Simon Johnston , Roger W. Romani

PSR J0205+6449 is a young rotation-powered pulsar in SNR 3C 58. It is one of only three young (<10,000 year old) pulsars which are so far detected in the radio and the classical X-ray bands, as well as at hard X-rays above 20 keV and at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 L. Kuiper , W. Hermsen , J. O. Urama , P. R. den Hartog , A. G. Lyne , B. W. Stappers

PSR J1641+8049 is a 2 ms black widow pulsar with the 2.2 h orbital period detected in the radio and $\gamma$-rays. We performed new phase-resolved multi-band photometry of PSR J1641+8049 using the OSIRIS instrument at the Gran Telescopio…

We present the results of a BeppoSAX observation of the fastest rotating pulsar known: PSR B1937+21. The ~200 ks observation (78.5 ks MECS/34 ks LECS on-source time) allowed us to investigate with high statistical significance both the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 L. Nicastro , G. Cusumano , O. Loehmer , M. Kramer , L. Kuiper , W. Hermsen , T. Mineo , W. Becker

We present timing solutions for ten pulsars discovered in 350 MHz searches with the Green Bank Telescope. Nine of these were discovered in the Green Bank Northern Celestial Cap survey and one was discovered by students in the Pulsar Search…

We present photometric and spectroscopic observations of the optical companion to the millisecond radio pulsar PSR J1740-5340 in the globular cluster NGC 6397. An analysis of the photometric variability in the B, V, and I-bands indicates an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Kaluzny , S. M. Rucinski , I. B. Thompson

PSR J1023+0038 is the first millisecond pulsar that was ever observed as an optical and UV pulsar. So far, it is the only optical transitional millisecond pulsar. The rotation- and accretion-powered emission mechanisms hardly individually…

We have measured 21-cm absorption spectra in the direction of three southern pulsars, PSRs B0736-40, B1451-68 and B1641-45, in three separate epochs spread over 2.5 yr. We see no evidence for any changes in the absorption spectra over this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Simon Johnston , Baerbel Koribalski , Warwick Wilson , Mark Walker

Millisecond spinning, low magnetic field neutron stars are believed to attain their fast rotation in a 0.1-1 Gyr-long phase during which they accrete matter endowed with angular momentum from a low-mass companion star. Despite extensive…

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

Observations of the binary pulsar PSR J1141-6545 using the Parkes radio telescope over 9.3 years show clear time-variations in pulse width, shape and polarization. We interpret these variations in terms of relativistic precession of the…

G320.4-01.2 is a complex radio and X-ray source, coinciding on the sky with the young energetic pulsar B1509-58. A young pulsar embedded in a SNR would seem to accord with expectations, but previous observations suggest that all may not be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. M. Gaensler , K. T. S. Brazier , R. N. Manchester , S. Johnston , A. J. Green

Sixteen pulsars have been discovered so far in blind searches of photons collected with the Large Area Telescope on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. We here report the discovery of radio pulsations from two of them. PSR J1741-2054, with…

We used the Fourier decomposition technique to investigate the stability of the X-ray pulse profile of a young pulsar PSR B1509-58 by studying the relative amplitudes and the phase differences of its harmonic components with respect to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Pragati Pradhan , Biswajit Paul , Harsha Raichur , B. C Paul

We report on X-ray observations of the solitary 4.8 ms pulsar PSR J0030+0451. The pulsar was one of the last targets observed in DEC-98 by the ROSAT PSPC. X-ray pulses are detected on a $4.5\sigma$ level and make the source the $11^{th}$…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Werner Becker , Joachim Tr"umper , Andrea N. Lommen , Donald C. Backer

About 100 millisecond (ms) pulsars have been identified in the Galaxy, and only ~10% of them are solitary, i.e. without a binary companion. Nothing is known on the optical emission properties of millisecond pulsars. Observations of solitary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Roberto P. Mignani , Werner Becker

We present high-speed, multi-colour optical photometry of the anomalous X-ray pulsar 4U 0142+61, obtained with ULTRACAM on the 4.2-m William Herschel Telescope. We detect 4U 0142+61 at magnitudes of i'=23.7+-0.1, g'=27.2+-0.2 and u'>25.8,…

We report on the detection of PSR 1706-44 in two ROSAT-PSPC observations. The recorded source counts are unpulsed with a $2\sigma$ pulsed fraction upper limit of 18%. Spectral analysis did not distinguish between black-body and power law…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. Becker , K. T. S. Barzier , J. Truemper