Pulsar Timing with the Parkes Radio Telescope for the Fermi Mission

2009/09/30 by P. Weltevrede, S. Johnston, R. N. Manchester +16 · 81 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #Conjunction (astronomy) #Detector #Ephemeris #Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope #Glitch #Optics #Physics #Pulsar #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology #Radio telescope #Satellite #Spitzer Space Telescope #Telescope #astro-ph.GA

paper · pdf · doi:10.1071/as09054

published in Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia 27(1), 64-75 (Cambridge University Press) · Accepted for publication in PASA.12 pages

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Abstract

Abstract We report here on two years of timing of 168 pulsars using the Parkes radio telescope. The vast majority of these pulsars have spin-down luminosities in excess of 10 34 erg s −1 and are prime target candidates to be detected in gamma-rays by the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope. We provide the ephemerides for the ten pulsars being timed at Parkes which have been detected by Fermi in its first year of operation. These ephemerides, in conjunction with the publicly available photonlist, can be used to generate gamma-ray profiles from the Fermi archive. We will make the ephemerides of any pulsars of interest available to the community upon request. In addition to the timing ephemerides, we present the parameters for 14 glitches which have occurred in 13 pulsars, seven of which have no previously known glitch history.The Parkes timing programme, in conjunction with Fermi observations, is expected to continue for at least the next four years.

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