Search Results - "Lorimer, D. R."
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Fast radio bursts at the dawn of the 2020s
Published in The Astronomy and astrophysics review (01-12-2022)“…Since the discovery of the first fast radio burst (FRB) in 2007, and their confirmation as an abundant extragalactic population in 2013, the study of these…”
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On the FRB luminosity function – – II. Event rate density
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-05-2020)“…ABSTRACT The luminosity function of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), defined as the event rate per unit cosmic co-moving volume per unit luminosity, may help to…”
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Bright Millisecond Radio Burst of Extragalactic Origin
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (02-11-2007)“…Pulsar surveys offer a rare opportunity to monitor the radio sky for impulsive burst-like events with millisecond durations. We analyzed archival survey data…”
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Possible periodic activity in the repeating FRB 121102
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (11-07-2020)“…ABSTRACT The discovery that at least some Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) repeat has ruled out cataclysmic events as the progenitors of these particular bursts…”
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A statistical study of 233 pulsar proper motions
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-07-2005)“…We present and analyse a catalogue of 233 pulsars with proper motion measurements. The sample contains a wide variety of pulsars including recycled objects and…”
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PsrPopPy: an open-source package for pulsar population simulations
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (11-04-2014)“…We have produced a new software package for the simulation of pulsar populations, PsrPopPy, based on the Psrpop package. The codebase has been re-written in…”
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Strong-Field Gravity Tests with the Double Pulsar
Published in Physical review. X (01-12-2021)“…Continued timing observations of the double pulsar PSR J0737–3039A/B, which consists of two active radio pulsars (A and B) that orbit each other with a period…”
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Relativistic Shapiro Delay Measurements of an Extremely Massive Millisecond Pulsar
Published in Nature astronomy (01-01-2020)“…Despite its importance to our understanding of physics at supranuclear densities, the equation of state (EoS) of matter deep within neutron stars remains…”
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The NANOGrav 11 yr Data Set: Limits on Gravitational Waves from Individual Supermassive Black Hole Binaries
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-08-2019)“…Observations indicate that nearly all galaxies contain supermassive black holes at their centers. When galaxies merge, their component black holes form SMBH…”
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ON PULSAR DISTANCE MEASUREMENTS AND THEIR UNCERTAINTIES
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-08-2012)“…Accurate distances to pulsars can be used for a variety of studies of the Galaxy and its electron content. However, most distance measures to pulsars have been…”
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Tests of General Relativity from Timing the Double Pulsar
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (06-10-2006)“…The double pulsar system PSR J0737-3039A/B is unique in that both neutron stars are detectable as radio pulsars. They are also known to have much higher mean…”
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Which bright fast radio bursts repeat?
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (21-06-2020)“…ABSTRACT A handful of fast radio bursts (FRBs) are now known to repeat. However, the question remains – do they all? We report on an extensive observational…”
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The High Time Resolution Universe Pulsar Survey – XIII. PSR J1757−1854, the most accelerated binary pulsar
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Letters (01-03-2018)“…Abstract We report the discovery of PSR J1757−1854, a 21.5-ms pulsar in a highly-eccentric, 4.4-h orbit with a neutron star (NS) companion. PSR J1757−1854…”
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Periodically Active Pulsar Giving Insight into Magnetospheric Physics
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (28-04-2006)“…PSR B1931+24 (J1933+2421) behaves as an ordinary isolated radio pulsar during active phases that are 5 to 10 days long. However, when the radio emission…”
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A search for rotating radio transients and fast radio bursts in the Parkes high-latitude pulsar survey
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (11-01-2016)“…Discoveries of rotating radio transients and fast radio bursts (FRBs) in pulsar surveys suggest that more of such transient sources await discovery in archival…”
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On the nature and evolution of the unique binary pulsar J1903+0327
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-04-2011)“…PSR J1903+0327, a millisecond pulsar in an eccentric (e= 0.44) 95-d orbit with an ∼1 M⊙ companion poses a challenge to our understanding of stellar evolution…”
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Mode switching and oscillations in PSR B1828–11
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (21-05-2019)“…Abstract The young pulsar PSR B1828–11 has long been known to show correlated shape and spindown changes with time-scales of roughly 500 and 250 d, perhaps…”
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A Second Chromatic Timing Event of Interstellar Origin toward PSR J1713+0747
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-07-2018)“…The frequency dependence of radio pulse arrival times provides a probe of structures in the intervening media. Demorest et al. was the first to show a…”
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Precise mass measurements for the double neutron star system J1829+2456
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (01-02-2021)“…ABSTRACT PSR J1829+2456 is a radio pulsar in a relativistic binary system with another neutron star. It has a rotational period of 41 ms and a mildly eccentric…”
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The Parkes Multibeam Pulsar Survey – VI. Discovery and timing of 142 pulsars and a Galactic population analysis
Published in Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (21-10-2006)“…We present the discovery and follow-up observations of 142 pulsars found in the Parkes 20-cm multibeam pulsar survey of the Galactic plane. These new…”
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