2008/03/05 by A. Noutsos, Aristeidis Noutsos, Simon Johnston +5 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13188.x
19 pages, 10 figures, 2 tables
arxiv created 2008/03/05 · openalex publication_date 2008/04/11 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We measured a sample of 150 pulsar rotation measures (RMs) using the 20-cm receiver of the Parkes 64-m radio telescope. 46 of the pulsars in our sample have not had their RM values previously published, whereas 104 pulsar RMs have been revised. We used a novel quadratic fitting algorithm to obtain an accurate RM from the calibrated polarization profiles recorded across 256 MHz of receiver bandwidth. The new data are used in conjunction with previously known dispersion measures and the NE2001 electron-density model to study models of the direction and magnitude of the Galactic magnetic field.