The central compact object 1E 1207.4-5209 emits pulsed radio waves at its 0.4-second spin period, revealing it as a faint radio pulsar.
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A New Electron Density Model for Estimation of Pulsar and FRB Distances
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We present a new model for the distribution of free electrons in the Galaxy, the Magellanic Clouds and the intergalactic medium (IGM) that can be used to estimate distances to real or simulated pulsars and fast radio bursts (FRBs) based on their dispersion measure (DM). The Galactic model has an extended thick disk representing the so-called warm interstellar medium, a thin disk representing the Galactic molecular ring, spiral arms based on a recent fit to Galactic HII regions, a Galactic Center disk and seven local features including the Gum Nebula, Galactic Loop I and the Local Bubble. An offset of the Sun from the Galactic plane and a warp of the outer Galactic disk are included in the model. Parameters of the Galactic model are determined by fitting to 189 pulsars with independently determined distances and DMs. Simple models are used for the Magellanic Clouds and the IGM. Galactic model distances are within the uncertainty range for 86 of the 189 independently determined distances and within 20\% of the nearest limit for a further 38 pulsars. We estimate that 95\% of predicted Galactic pulsar distances will have a relative error of less than a factor of 0.9. The predictions of YMW16 are compared to those of the TC93 and NE2001 models showing that YMW16 performs significantly better on all measures. Timescales for pulse broadening due to interstellar scattering are estimated for (real or simulated) Galactic and Magellanic Cloud pulsars and FRBs.
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Constraints on the properties of warm ionized gas from low-frequency hydrogen radio recombination lines
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Dependences of radio pulsar parameters on the bimodal kick mode
Pulsars that received weak natal kicks tend to have weaker magnetic fields, and no fast-kicked pulsar with a field below ~10^11 G appears in the sample.
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SPICE: Scintillation Pipeline for Interferometric Candidate Extraction
SPICE is an automated pipeline that recovers known pulsars in GMRT data by detecting scintillation signatures in interferometric visibilities.
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A search for Fast Radio Bursts from globular clusters in M49 with FAST
A 9-hour FAST observation covering ~4230 GCs in M49 found no FRBs and sets an upper limit of 4.7e-4 FRB GC^-1 hr^-1 above ~16.5 mJy ms fluence.
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The impact of FRB dispersion measure probability distribution functions on cosmographic estimates
Cosmographic constraints from 106 FRBs on H0, q0, j0 depend sensitively on whether a Gaussian or quasi-Gaussian PDF is assumed for DM_IGM and on whether the baryon mass fraction is fixed or free.
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Constraints on Ultralight Scalar and Dark Photon Dark Matter from PPTA-DR3 and EPTA-DR2
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