J/ApJ/642/868 Rotation measures for 223 pulsars (Han+, 2006)
Pulsar rotation measures and the large-scale structure of the galactic magnetic
field.
Han J.L., Manchester R.N., Lyne A.G., Qiao G.J., Van Straten W.
<Astrophys. J., 642, 868-881 (2006)>
=2006ApJ...642..868H 2006ApJ...642..868H
ADC_Keywords: Pulsars ; Magnetic fields ; Interstellar medium
Keywords: galaxies: magnetic fields - Galaxy: structure - ISM: magnetic fields -
pulsars: general
Abstract:
The large-scale magnetic field of our Galaxy can be probed in three
dimensions using Faraday rotation of pulsar signals. We report on the
determination of 223 rotation measures from polarization observations
of relatively distant southern pulsars made using the Parkes radio
telescope.
Description:
In observation sessions on 1999 December 12-17, 2000 December 14-19,
and 2003 February 18-21, we made polarization observations at 20cm
wavelength of 270 pulsars using the central beam of the 13 beam
multibeam receiver on the Parkes 64m telescope.
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table1.dat 74 223 Rotation measures for 223 pulsars
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See also:
VII/189 : Catalog of Pulsars (Taylor+ 1995)
J/MNRAS/328/17 : Parkes Multi-Beam Pulsar Survey (Manchester+, 2001)
J/MNRAS/335/275 : Parkes Multi-Beam Pulsar Survey new PSR (Morris+, 2002)
J/MNRAS/342/1299 : Parkes Multi-Beam Pulsar Survey. III. (Kramer+, 2003)
J/MNRAS/352/1439 : Parkes Multi-Beam Pulsar Survey. IV. (Hobbs+, 2004)
J/MNRAS/372/777 : Parkes Multibeam Pulsar Survey. VI. (Lorimer+, 2006)
Byte-by-byte Description of file: table1.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 10 A10 --- PSRJ Pulsar name based on J2000.0 coordinates
12- 19 A8 --- PSRB Pulsar name based on B1950.0 coordinates
21- 27 F7.2 ms Per Period
29- 35 F7.2 pc/cm3 DM Dispersion measure
37- 42 F6.2 deg GLON Galactic longitude
44- 49 F6.2 deg GLAT Galactic latitude
51- 55 F5.2 kpc Dist Heliocentric distance
57- 63 F7.1 rad/m2 RM Rotation measure
65- 66 I2 rad/m2 e_RM Error in RM
68- 74 A7 "YYYY/MM" Obs.Date Date of observation
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(End) Marianne Brouty [CDS] 03-Jun-2008