2006/07/14 by A. D. Kuz’min, A. D. Kuzmin, А. А. Ершов +1 · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations #Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1134/s1063773706090027
published as Pisma Astron.Zh. 32 (2006) 650-654 (2006AstL...32..583K) · 10 pages, 3 figures, 1 table; originally published in Russian in Pis'ma Astron. Zh., 2006, v.32, 650; translated by George Rudnitskii; the English version will be appear in Astronomy Letters
arxiv created 2006/07/14 · openalex publication_date 2006/08/30 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
Giant pulses (GPs) have been detected from the pulsar PSR B0656 + 14. A pulse that is more intense than the average pulse by a factor of 120 is encountered approximately once in 3000 observed periods of the pulsar. The peak flux density of the strongest pulse, 120 Jy, is a factor of 630 higher than that of the average pulse. The GP energy exceeds the energy of the average pulse by up to a factor of 110, which is comparable to that for other known pulsars with GPs, including the Crab pulsar and the millisecond pulsar PSR B1937+21. The giant pulses are a factor of ∼6 narrower than the average pulse and are clustered at the head of the average pulse. PSR B0656+14 along with PSR B0031-07, PSR B1112+50, and PSR J1752+2359 belong to a distinctive group of pulsars in which GPs have been detected without any extremely strong magnetic field on the light cylinder.