Is pulsar B0656+14 a very nearby RRAT source?

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2006-06-14

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0606345v1

Astrophys.J. 645 (2006) L149-L152

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, 4 figures, accepted by ApJL

Scientific paper

10.1086/506346

The recently discovered RRAT sources are characterized by very bright radio bursts which, while being periodically related, occur infrequently. We find bursts with the same characteristics for the known pulsar B0656+14. These bursts represent pulses from the bright end of an extended smooth pulse-energy distribution and are shown to be unlike giant pulses, giant micropulses or the pulses of normal pulsars. The extreme peak-fluxes of the brightest of these pulses indicates that PSR B0656+14, were it not so near, could only have been discovered as an RRAT source. Longer observations of the RRATs may reveal that they, like PSR B0656+14, emit weaker emission in addition to the bursts.

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