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Giant pulses of pulsar radio emission
Review report of giant pulses of pulsar radio emission, based on our
detections of four new pulsars with giant pulses, and the comparative analysis
of the previously known pulsars with giant pulses, including the Crab pulsar
and millisecond pulsar PSR B1937+21.Comment: Proceedings of the 363. WE-Heraeus Seminar on: Neutron Stars and
Pulsars (Posters and contributed talks) Physikzentrum Bad Honnef, Germany,
May.14-19, 2006, eds. W.Becker, H.H.Huang, MPE Report 291, pp.72-7
High-time Resolution Astrophysics and Pulsars
The discovery of pulsars in 1968 heralded an era where the temporal
characteristics of detectors had to be reassessed. Up to this point detector
integration times would normally be measured in minutes rather seconds and
definitely not on sub-second time scales. At the start of the 21st century
pulsar observations are still pushing the limits of detector telescope
capabilities. Flux variations on times scales less than 1 nsec have been
observed during giant radio pulses. Pulsar studies over the next 10 to 20 years
will require instruments with time resolutions down to microseconds and below,
high-quantum quantum efficiency, reasonable energy resolution and sensitive to
circular and linear polarisation of stochastic signals. This chapter is review
of temporally resolved optical observations of pulsars. It concludes with
estimates of the observability of pulsars with both existing telescopes and
into the ELT era.Comment: Review; 21 pages, 5 figures, 86 references. Book chapter to appear
in: D.Phelan, O.Ryan & A.Shearer, eds.: High Time Resolution Astrophysics
(Astrophysics and Space Science Library, Springer, 2007). The original
publication will be available at http://www.springerlink.co