Shaifullah, Golam: Timing and properties of recycled pulsars. 2017
Inhalt
- Introduction
- What are pulsars?
- Radio emission from pulsars and Pulsar Magnetospheres
- Fundamental properties of pulsars
- Recycled pulsars
- Structure and organisation of this thesis
- Pulsar astronomy
- Instrumentation for observing pulsars
- Effects of the ionised inter-stellar medium
- Polarisation Calibration
- Flux Calibration
- Pulsar timing
- Artefacts in Polyphase filterbanks
- Introduction
- Digitisation artefacts
- Polyphase Filterbanks
- The two-channel qmf and the alias component matrix
- Least-Squares Optimisation
- Artefacts in pulsar backends
- Limits on the pulsar timing precision
- Conclusions
- 21-year timing of the black-widow pulsar J2051-0827
- Spectral Indices of Millisecond Pulsars
- Introduction
- Observational Setup and Data Analysis
- Observed sources, flux density measurements and spectral indices
- Summary and conclusions
- Conclusions
- Appendices
- Spectra of standard calibrators
- Glossary of statistical tools used
- Bibliography
- Acronyms
- List of Symbols used