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The Noise Structure of Pulsar Clocks
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2016
Abstract
Pulse arrival times of pulsars have a high – though limited – degree of predictability: they show both discrete ‘glitches’, and continuous deviations from an analytic extrapolation of earlier data spans; they are ‘noisy’. This noise shows a strong dependence on a pulsar’s spindown age. Both types of noise can be understood as due to a loose coupling of the charged component of a pulsar’s moment of inertia to a neutral superfluid component, of relative moment of inertia usually below 1%, but reaching 10% in extreme cases. Differential spin rates δΩ/Ω of the two components are ≲ 10−3, usually only ≲ 10−5.
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- Part 2. Timing, General Relativity and Astrometry
- Information
- International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 177: Pulsar Astronomy - 2000 and Beyond , 2000 , pp. 103 - 104
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- Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2000
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