A transient component in the pulse profile of PSRJ0738-4042
One of the tenets of the radio pulsar observational picture is that the integrated pulse profiles are constant with time. This assumption underpins much of the fantastic science made possible via pulsar timing. Over the past few years, however, this assumption has come under question with a number o...
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| author | Karastergiou, A Roberts, S Johnston, S Lee, H Weltevrede, P Kramer, M |
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| description | One of the tenets of the radio pulsar observational picture is that the integrated pulse profiles are constant with time. This assumption underpins much of the fantastic science made possible via pulsar timing. Over the past few years, however, this assumption has come under question with a number of pulsars showing pulse shape changes on a range of time-scales. Here, we show the dramatic appearance of a bright component in the pulse profile of PSRJ0738-4042 (B0736-40). The component arises on the leading edge of the profile. It was not present in 2004 but strongly present in 2006 and all observations thereafter. A subsequent search through the literature shows that the additional component varies in flux density over time-scales of decades. We show that the polarization properties of the transient component are consistent with the picture of competing orthogonal polarization modes. Faced with the general problem of identifying and characterizing average profile changes, we outline and apply a statistical technique based on a hidden Markov model. The value of this technique is established through simulations and is shown to work successfully in the case of low signal-to-noise ratio profiles. © 2011 The Authors Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society © 2011 RAS. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:4f2c2fa3-1eef-49ec-b1ff-dfec5d0d855f2022-03-26T16:05:29ZA transient component in the pulse profile of PSRJ0738-4042Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:4f2c2fa3-1eef-49ec-b1ff-dfec5d0d855fEnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2011Karastergiou, ARoberts, SJohnston, SLee, HWeltevrede, PKramer, MOne of the tenets of the radio pulsar observational picture is that the integrated pulse profiles are constant with time. This assumption underpins much of the fantastic science made possible via pulsar timing. Over the past few years, however, this assumption has come under question with a number of pulsars showing pulse shape changes on a range of time-scales. Here, we show the dramatic appearance of a bright component in the pulse profile of PSRJ0738-4042 (B0736-40). The component arises on the leading edge of the profile. It was not present in 2004 but strongly present in 2006 and all observations thereafter. A subsequent search through the literature shows that the additional component varies in flux density over time-scales of decades. We show that the polarization properties of the transient component are consistent with the picture of competing orthogonal polarization modes. Faced with the general problem of identifying and characterizing average profile changes, we outline and apply a statistical technique based on a hidden Markov model. The value of this technique is established through simulations and is shown to work successfully in the case of low signal-to-noise ratio profiles. © 2011 The Authors Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society © 2011 RAS. |
| spellingShingle | Karastergiou, A Roberts, S Johnston, S Lee, H Weltevrede, P Kramer, M A transient component in the pulse profile of PSRJ0738-4042 |
| title | A transient component in the pulse profile of PSRJ0738-4042 |
| title_full | A transient component in the pulse profile of PSRJ0738-4042 |
| title_fullStr | A transient component in the pulse profile of PSRJ0738-4042 |
| title_full_unstemmed | A transient component in the pulse profile of PSRJ0738-4042 |
| title_short | A transient component in the pulse profile of PSRJ0738-4042 |
| title_sort | transient component in the pulse profile of psrj0738 4042 |
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