Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2003-05-15
Astron.Astrophys. 407 (2003) 273-288
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
15 pages, 17 figures, accepted to A&A
Scientific paper
10.1051/0004-6361:20030716
We report the detection of pulse-to-pulse periodic intensity modulations, in observations of recycled pulsars. Even though the detection of individual pulses was generally not possible due to their low flux density and short duration, through the accumulation of statistics over sequences of 10^5--10^6 pulses we were able to determine the presence and properties of the pulse-to-pulse intensity variations of six pulsars. In most cases we found that the modulation included a weak, broadly quasi-periodic component. For two pulsars the sensitivity was high enough to ascertain that the modulation phase apparently varies systematically across the profile, indicating that the modulation appears as drifting subpulses. We detected brighter than average individual pulses in several pulsars, with energies up to 2--7 times higher than the mean, similar to results from normal pulsars. We were sensitive to giant pulses of a rate of occurrence equal to (and in many instances much lower than) that of PSR B1937+21 at 1400 MHz (~30 times lower than at 430 MHz), but none were detected, indicating that the phenomenon is rare in recycled pulsars.
Edwards R. T.
Stappers Ben W.
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