1997 October Event(s) in the Crab Pulsar

Details 1997 October Event(s) in the Crab Pulsar 1997 October Event(s) in the Crab Pulsar

1999-11-10

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9911181v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

6 pp; 2 fig; in Pulsar Astronomy -- 2000 and Beyond

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In October 1997 daily monitoring observations of the Crab pulsar at 327 MHz and 610 MHz with an 85ft telescope in Green Bank, WV showed a jump in the dispersion by 0.12 cm^{-3} pc. Pulses were seen simultaneously at both old and new dispersions for a period of days. In the months before this event faint ghost emission, a replica of the pulse, was detected with a nearly frequency independent delay that quadratically diminished to zero. There was also a curious shift in the phase, a slowdown, at all frequencies at the time of the dispersion jump. I attribute most of these phenomena to the perturbing optics of a plasma prism that is located in the filamentary interface between the synchrotron nebula and the supernova ejecta and which crosses the line of sight over a period of months. The required density, scale length and velocity are reasonable given detailed HST and previous observations of these filaments.

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