J/other/PASA/27.64 Parkes Radio Telescope pulsar timing (Weltevrede+, 2010)
Pulsar timing with the Parkes Radio Telescope for the Fermi Mission.
Weltevrede P., Johnston S., Manchester R.N., Bhat R., Burgay M.,
Champion D., Hobbs G.B., Kiziltan B., Keith M., Possenti A., Reynolds J.E.,
Watters K.
<Publ. Astron. Soc. Australia, 27, 64-75 (2010)>
=2010PASA...27...64W 2010PASA...27...64W
ADC_Keywords: Pulsars
Keywords: pulsars: ephemerides - pulsars: general - pulsars: glitches
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 1034erg/s 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 photon list, 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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FileName Lrecl Records Explanations
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ReadMe 80 . This file
table1.dat 32 156 Parameters and post-fit RMS in milli-periods (mP)
table2.dat 32 12 *Parameters and post-fit RMS in milli-periods (mP)
table3.dat 45 14 Parameters of the 14 glitches observed in the
timing data
table4.dat 350 10 Timing parameters for 10 pulsars detected in
gamma-rays by Fermi
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Note on table2.dat: In addition to those contained in Smith et al.
(2008, Cat. J/A+A/492/923).
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See also:
J/A+A/492/923 : Pulsar Timing for Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (Smith+ 2008)
Byte-by-byte Description of file: table[12].dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 10 A10 --- PSR Pulsar name (JHHMM+DDMM)
12- 17 F6.1 ms Per Period
19- 22 I4 pc/cm3 DM Dispersion measure
24- 27 F4.1 [10-7W] log(dE/dt) Spin-down energy loss rate
29- 32 F4.1 --- rms ?=- Post-fit rms (in milli-periods)
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table3.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 10 A10 --- PSR Pulsar name (JHHMM+DDMM)
11 A1 --- n_PSR [*] * for Pulsar not previously known to
have glitched
13- 19 F7.1 d Epoch Epoch (MJD) of glitch
21- 22 I2 d e_Epoch rms uncertainty on Epoch
24- 29 F6.4 10-6 Fnu Fractional change in the spin frequency
31- 35 F5.4 10-6 e_Fnu rms uncertainty on fractional change in the
spin frequency
37- 41 F5.2 10-3 Fdnu/dt ? Fractional change in the frequency derivative
42- 45 F4.2 10-3 e_Fdnu/dt ? rms uncertainty on fractional change in the
frequency derivative
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table4.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 10 A10 --- PSR Pulsar name (JHHMM+DDMM)
12- 13 I2 h RAh Right ascension (J2000)
15- 16 I2 min RAm Right ascension (J2000)
18- 25 F8.5 s RAs Right ascension (J2000)
27 A1 --- DE- Declination sign (J2000)
28- 29 I2 deg DEd Declination (J2000)
31- 32 I2 arcmin DEm Declination (J2000)
34- 40 F7.4 arcsec DEs Declination (J2000)
42- 54 F13.10 s-1 nu Spin frequency
56- 60 I5 10-10s-1 e_nu rms uncertainty on nu
62- 71 F10.3 10-15 dnu/dt Frequency derivative
73- 79 F7.3 10-15 e_dnu/dt rms uncertainty on dnu/dt
81- 88 F8.4 pc/cm3 DM Dispersion measure
90- 94 F5.4 pc/cm3 e_DM ? rms uncertainty on DM
96-101 F6.2 mas/yr pmRA ? Proper motion along RA
103-106 F4.1 mas/yr pmDE ? Proper motion along DE
108-114 F7.1 d Epoch Epoch (MJD)
116-131 F16.10 d MJDref MJD of reference
133-140 F8.3 MHz Freqref Frequency of reference at Parkes telescope
142-148 F7.1 d Ep(gl) ? Glitch epoch (MJD)
150-155 F6.3 --- ph(gl) ? Glitch phase offset
157-160 F4.3 --- e_ph(gl) ? rms uncertainty on glitch phase offset
162-167 F6.4 10-5 Dnu(gl) ? Glitch fractional change in the spin
frequency
169 I1 10-9 e_Dnu(gl) ? rms uncertainty on glitch DnuGL
171-175 F5.1 10-14 Dnu.(gl) ? Glitch fractional change in the
frequency derivative
177 I1 10-15 e_Dnu.(gl) ? rms uncertainty on glitch Δdν/dt
179-183 I5 d t0(gl) MJD of first data point
185-189 I5 d t1(gl) MJD of last data point
191-199 F9.7 rad/d Fwave ? Wave frequency
201-209 F9.6 --- wave1a ? FITWAVE parameter wave1 first value
210 A1 --- --- [,]
211-220 F10.7 --- wave1b ? FITWAVE parameter wave1 second value
222-230 F9.6 --- wave2a ? FITWAVE parameter wave2 first value
231 A1 --- --- [,]
232-241 F10.7 --- wave2b ? FITWAVE parameter wave2 second value
243-252 F10.7 --- wave3a ? FITWAVE parameter wave3 first value
253 A1 --- --- [,]
254-264 E11.5 --- wave3b ? FITWAVE parameter wave3 second value
266-275 F10.7 --- wave4a ? FITWAVE parameter wave4 first value
276 A1 --- --- [,]
277-286 F10.7 --- wave4b ? FITWAVE parameter wave4 second value
288-297 F10.7 --- wave5a ? FITWAVE parameter wave5 first value
298 A1 --- --- [,]
299-309 E11.5 --- wave5b ? FITWAVE parameter wave5 second value
310-318 F9.6 --- wave6a ? FITWAVE parameter wave6 first value
319 A1 --- --- [,]
320-328 F9.6 --- wave6b ? FITWAVE parameter wave6 second value
330-339 F10.7 --- wave7a ? FITWAVE parameter wave7 first value
340 A1 --- --- [,]
341-350 F10.7 --- wave7b ? FITWAVE parameter wave7 second value
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History:
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(End) Patricia Vannier [CDS] 20-Jun-2011