Time-domain and spectral properties of pulsars at 154 MHz
Abstract
We present 154 MHz Murchison Widefield Array imaging observations and variability information for a sample of pulsars. Over the declination range -80° < δ < 10°, we detect 17 known pulsars with mean flux density greater than 0.3 Jy. We explore the variability properties of this sample on time-scales of minutes to years. For three of these pulsars, PSR J0953+0755, PSR J0437-4715, and PSR J0630-2834, we observe interstellar scintillation and variability on time-scales of greater than 2 min. One further pulsar, PSR J0034-0721, showed significant variability, the physical origins of which are difficult to determine. The dynamic spectra for PSR J0953+0755 and PSR J0437-4715 show discrete time and frequency structure consistent with diffractive interstellar scintillation and we present the scintillation bandwidth and time-scales from these observations. The remaining pulsars within our sample were statistically non-variable. We also explore the spectral properties of this sample and find spectral curvature in pulsars PSR J0835-4510, PSR J1752-2806, and PSR J0437-4715.
- Publication:
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- September 2016
- DOI:
- 10.1093/mnras/stw1293
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1605.09100
- Bibcode:
- 2016MNRAS.461..908B
- Keywords:
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- pulsars: general;
- radio continuum: stars;
- Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
- E-Print:
- doi:10.1093/mnras/stw1293