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Pulsar Noise Processes and Emission Physics.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Pulsar Noise Processes and Emission Physics./
作者:	Shapiro-Albert, Brent Jacob.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2021,
面頁冊數:	231 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-02, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International83-02B.
標題:	Noise. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28653058
ISBN:	9798522953768

Pulsar Noise Processes and Emission Physics.
Shapiro-Albert, Brent Jacob.

Pulsar Noise Processes and Emission Physics. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2021 - 231 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-02, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--West Virginia University, 2021.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Precision pulsar timing can be used to study many different astrophysically interesting phenomena, from the emission mechanism of pulsars to the detection of nanohertz gravitational waves. These analyses span topics such as studying the single pulses of pulsars and analyzing years of pulsar timing data from pulsar timing arrays (PTAs). Single-pulse studies allow us to glean information on the emission physics of pulsars on their shortest timescales, while PTA observations of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) allow us to not only study the pulsars themselves, but also probe the interstellar medium (ISM) and constrain the noise in the data for precision pulsar timing experiments. To study the emission properties of pulsars, we compiled a large population of single pulses from three rotating radio transients (RRATs), from which we detect sporadic, but periodic pulsations and whose emission mechanisms remain largely unknown. Our study found that the average spectral indices of these RRATs is flatter than most pulsars, with a power-law index of α = −0.9, but that the distribution of single-pulse spectral indices is large. We also find that the single-pulse flux distributions of these three RRATs generally follow a log-normal distribution, suggesting the detected radio emission is not due to giant pulses. Further we find that single-pulse flux is not correlated with the wait-time between pulses, and thus is not produced by mechanisms such as the storage and release of energy in the pulsar magnetosphere. We then analyze multi-hour continuous observations of seven MSPs in the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Wave (NANOGrav) PTA to characterize the ISM along their lines-of-sight. These unique observa- tions allowed us to place some of the best limits on the scintillation bandwidth and timescale for these MSPs, some for the first time, and show that the root mean square (rms) noise due to scattering in these MSPs is ≲ 50 ns. We further showed that, as expected, the dispersion measure (DM) of these MSPs does not vary on ∼ hour long timescales, and that the timing precision of these MSPs does not decrease if the observations are not contiguous, as expected for observations by telescopes like the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment. Finally, we explore the covariances between various radio frequency-dependent parameters in pulsar timing models and how they contribute to the overall noise budget of the PTA. To do this, we developed the Pulsar Signal Simulator Python package and use it to generate simulated data sets for three NANOGrav MSPs. We find a clear correlation between the mean injected scattering timescale and the spread in the recovered DM value, with larger scattering timescales corresponding to larger spreads. However, we find that this covariance, while important to quantifying the noise budget of the PTA, does not affect the timing precision of the simulated MSPs.

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