- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/427/1052
- Title:
- HTRU survey. Timing of 54 pulsars
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/427/1052
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present 75 pulsars discovered in the mid-latitude portion of the High Time Resolution Universe survey, 54 of which have full timing solutions. All the pulsars have spin periods greater than 100ms, and none of those with timing solutions is in binaries. Two display particularly interesting behaviour; PSR J1054-5944 is found to be an intermittent pulsar, and PSR J1809-0119 has glitched twice since its discovery. In the second half of the paper we discuss the development and application of an artificial neural network in the data-processing pipeline for the survey. We discuss the tests that were used to generate scores and find that our neural network was able to reject over 99per cent of the candidates produced in the data processing, and able to blindly detect 85per cent of pulsars. We suggest that improvements to the accuracy should be possible if further care is taken when training an artificial neural network; for example, ensuring that a representative sample of the pulsar population is used during the training process, or the use of different artificial neural networks for the detection of different types of pulsars.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AZh/83/542
- Title:
- Integrated Radio Luminosities of Pulsars
- Short Name:
- J/AZh/83/542
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The integrated radio luminosities of 311 long-period (P>0.1s) and 27 short-period (P<0.1s) pulsars have been calculated using a new compilation of radio spectra. The luminosities are in the range 10^27^-10^30^erg/s for 88% of the long-period pulsars and 10^28^-10^31^erg/s for 88% of the short-period pulsars. We find a high correlation between the luminosity L and the estimate L1=S_(400)_*d^2^ from the catalog of Taylor et al. (1993, See Cat. <VII/189>. The factor 'eta' for transformation of the rotational energy of the neutron star into radio emission increases/decreases with increasing period for long-period/short-period pulsars. The mean value of 'eta'=-3.73 for the long-period and -4.85 for the short-period pulsars.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/229/589
- Title:
- Interplanetary Scintillation Survey at 81.5 MHz
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/229/589
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- A catalog of 1789 radio sources which exhibit interplanetary scintillation (IPS) at 81.5 MHz is presented. The angular diameters of scintillating components in the range 0.2-2 arcsec are listed together with values of the scintillating flux density at a solar elongation of 90 deg. IPS selects those sources which are highly compact, such as pulsars and some unusual extragalactic sources, or those in which energy is being released from active beams in the outer lobes of intrinsically powerful radio galaxies and quasars. The survey was made with the 3.6-hectare array at Cambridge and covers the area of sky between declinations -10 deg and +83 deg at all values of right ascension. The array was operated as a north-south phase-switching interferometer observing sources near meridian transit. Sixteen declination beams were produced covering the observed declination range. The half-power width of a declination beam is 5.5 sec(52.16-DEC) degrees, where DEC is the declination of peak beam response. The half-power beam width in right ascension is 107 sec(delta) s for a source at declination delta. The faintest sources in the catalogue have scintillating flux densities of about 0.3 Jy rms at a solar elongation of 90 deg, and total flux densities of about 5 Jy at 81.5 MHz. The sensitivity of the survey is not uniform over the sky, being determined largely by the galactic background emission. The flux density corresponding to one source per beam area in this survey is about 2.3 Jy at 81.5 MHz so that confusion errors are likely to be significant for total flux density S <= 20 Jy.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/563/L49
- Title:
- IR counterpart of the X-ray pulsar 1E 2259+586
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/563/L49
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present near-infrared and optical observations of the field of the anomalous X-ray pulsar 1E 2259+586 taken with the Keck telescope. We derive a sub-arcsecond Chandra position and tie it to our optical reference frame using other stars in the field. We find a very faint source, K_S_=21.7+/-0.2mag, with a position coincident with the Chandra position. We argue that this is the counterpart. In the J, I, and R bands, we derive (2{sigma}) limits of 23.8, 25.6, and 26.4mag, respectively. As with 4U 0142+61, for which a counterpart has previously been found, our results are inconsistent with models in which the source is powered by accretion from a disk but may be consistent with the magnetar model.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/714/1424
- Title:
- Isolated neutron stars from Rosat and Swift
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/714/1424
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Using new and archival observations made with the Swift satellite and other facilities, we examine 147 X-ray sources selected from the ROSAT All-Sky-Survey Bright Source Catalog (RASS/BSC) to produce a new limit on the number of isolated neutron stars (INSs) in the RASS/BSC, the most constraining such limit to date. Independent of X-ray spectrum and variability, the number of INSs is <=48 (90% confidence). Restricting attention to soft (kT_eff_<200eV), non-variable X-ray sources -as in a previous study- yields an all-sky limit of <=31 INSs. In the course of our analysis, we identify five new high-quality INS candidates for targeted follow-up observations. A future all-sky X-ray survey with eROSITA, or another mission with similar capabilities, can be expected to increase the detected population of X-ray-discovered INSs from the 8-50 in the BSC, to (for a disk population) 240-1500, which will enable a more detailed study of neutron star population models.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/402/2369
- Title:
- Kinematics of young associations/clusters
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/402/2369
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Young isolated radio-quiet neutron stars are still hot enough to be detectable at X-ray and optical wavelengths due to their thermal emission and can hence probe cooling curves. An identification of their birth sites can constrain their age. For that reason, we try to identify the parent associations for four of the so-called Magnificent Seven neutron stars for which proper motion and distance estimates are available. We are tracing back in time each neutron star and possible birth association centre to find close encounters. The associated time of the encounter expresses the kinematic age of the neutron star which can be compared to its characteristic spin-down age. Owing to observational uncertainties in the input data, we use Monte Carlo simulations and evaluate the outcome of our calculations statistically. RX J1856.5-3754 most probably originated from the Upper Scorpius association about 0.3Myr ago. RX J0720.4-3125 was either born in the young local association TW Hydrae about 0.4Myr ago or in Trumpler 10 0.5Myr in the past. Also RX J1605.3+3249 and RBS 1223 seem to come from a nearby young association such as the Scorpius-Centraurus complex or the extended Corona-Australis association. For RBS 1223 also a birth in Scutum OB2 is possible. We also give constraints on the observables as well as on the radial velocity of the neutron star. Given the birth association, its age and the flight time of the neutron star, we estimate the mass of the progenitor star. Some of the potential supernovae were located very nearby (<100pc) and thus should have contributed to the 10Be and 60Fe material found in the Earth's crust. In addition, we reinvestigate the previously suggested neutron star/runaway pair PSR B1929+10/zeta Ophiuchi and conclude that it is very likely that both objects were ejected during the same supernova event.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/829/119
- Title:
- Known pulsars identified in the TGSS ADR
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/829/119
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have used the 150MHz radio continuum survey (TGSS ADR) from the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) to search for phase-averaged emission toward all well-localized radio pulsars north of -53{deg} decl. We detect emission toward 200 pulsars with high confidence (>=5{sigma}) and another 88 pulsars at fainter levels. We show that most of our identifications are likely from pulsars, except for a small number where the measured flux density is confused by an associated supernova or pulsar-wind nebula, or a globular cluster. We investigate the radio properties of the 150MHz sample and find an unusually high number of gamma-ray binary millisecond pulsars with very steep spectral indices. We also note a discrepancy in the measured flux densities between GMRT and LOFAR pulsar samples, suggesting that the flux density scale for the LOFAR pulsar sample may be in error by approximately a factor of two. We carry out a separate search of 30 well-localized gamma-ray, radio-quiet pulsars in an effort to detect a widening of the radio beam into the line of sight at lower frequencies. No steep-spectrum emission was detected either toward individual pulsars or in a weighted stack of all 30 images.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/174/481
- Title:
- 2LC Compact Radio Sources in the galactic center
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/174/481
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have used the VLA at 1.4GHz to survey the inner 2{deg} of the Galactic center for radio pulsar candidates. Because of the large pulse broadening suffered by Galactic center radio pulsars, our strategy has been to identify compact radio sources, without regard to whether they are pulsed radio sources. We describe our survey and present the catalog of 170 sources. Comparison with other radio surveys of the area shows that just over half of these sources have not been detected previously; this same comparison reveals 29 sources that are not in higher frequency surveys, suggesting that the sources are either variable or steep spectrum, and a comparable number of sources in other surveys that should have been detected in this survey but were not. Comparison with infrared surveys shows that 59 (35%) sources have infrared counterparts and are likely to be HII regions.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/879/10
- Title:
- 2015-2017 LIGO obs. analysis for 221 pulsars
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/879/10
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a search for gravitational waves from 221 pulsars with rotation frequencies >~10Hz. We use advanced LIGO data from its first and second observing runs spanning 2015-2017, which provides the highest-sensitivity gravitational-wave data so far obtained. In this search we target emission from both the l=m=2 mass quadrupole mode, with a frequency at twice that of the pulsar's rotation, and the l=2, m=1 mode, with a frequency at the pulsar rotation frequency. The search finds no evidence for gravitational-wave emission from any pulsar at either frequency. For the l=m=2 mode search, we provide updated upper limits on the gravitational-wave amplitude, mass quadrupole moment, and fiducial ellipticity for 167 pulsars, and the first such limits for a further 55. For 20 young pulsars these results give limits that are below those inferred from the pulsars' spin-down. For the Crab and Vela pulsars our results constrain gravitational-wave emission to account for less than 0.017% and 0.18% of the spin-down luminosity, respectively. For the recycled millisecond pulsar J0711-6830 our limits are only a factor of 1.3 above the spin-down limit, assuming the canonical value of 10^38^kg.m^2^ for the star's moment of inertia, and imply a gravitational-wave-derived upper limit on the star's ellipticity of 1.2x10^-8^. We also place new limits on the emission amplitude at the rotation frequency of the pulsars.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/591/A134
- Title:
- LOFAR census of non-recycled pulsars
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/591/A134
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present first results from a LOFAR census of non-recycled pulsars. The census includes almost all such pulsars known (194 sources) at declinations Dec>8{deg} and Galactic latitudes |Gb|>3{deg}, regardless of their expected flux densities and scattering times. Each pulsar was observed for >=20minutes in the contiguous frequency range of 110-188MHz. Full-Stokes data were recorded. We present the dispersion measures, flux densities, and calibrated total intensity profiles for the 158 pulsars detected in the sample. The median uncertainty in census dispersion measures (1.5x10^-3^pc/cm^3^) is ten times smaller, on average, than in the ATNF pulsar catalogue. We combined census flux densities with those in the literature and fitted the resulting broadband spectra with single or broken power-law functions. For 48 census pulsars such fits are being published for the first time. Typically, the choice between single and broken power-laws, as well as the location of the spectral break, were highly influenced by the spectral coverage of the available flux density measurements. In particular, the inclusion of measurements below 100MHz appears essential for investigating the low-frequency turnover in the spectra for most of the census pulsars. For several pulsars, we compared the spectral indices from different works and found the typical spread of values to be within 0.5-1.5, suggesting a prevailing underestimation of spectral index errors in the literature. The census observations yielded some unexpected individual source results, as we describe in the paper. Lastly, we will provide this unique sample of wide-band, low-frequency pulse profiles via the European Pulsar Network Database.
