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A Tutorial on Radio Pulsars

WARNING: latex2html has scrambled the order and placment of formulae and tables - hope to fix this sometime

This tutorial was produced as part of the lecture course given to MSc students here at Jodrell bank in 1996. Its content and layout follows the book by Lyne and Graham-Smith on Pulsar Astronomy in many areas. I have borrowed pictures from this and many other sources.

• The discovery of pulsars
  • Neutron stars
  • The discovery
  • The Nature letter of February 1968
  • Identification with rotating neutron stars
  • Early searches at other wavelengths
• An overview
  • The lighthouse model
  • Periods and period derivatives
  • The structure of neutron stars
  • The magnetic fields of neutron stars
  • Radio pulse characteristics
  • Optical and other high energy emission
  • The interstellar medium
  • Galactic population
• Searches and surveys
  • The problem of sensitivity
  • Finding periodic signals
  • Selection effects
  • Large area surveys
  • Searches for millisecond pulsars
  • Targeted searches
• Assignment 1
• The Interstellar medium
  • Dispersion
  • Thin screen scintillation model
  • Diffractive scintillation
  • Refractive scintillation
  • The Fresnel distance
  • Distribution in size of the irregularities
  • Scattering and apparent diameter
  • Faraday rotation and the Galactic B field
• Distances
  • Dispersion Measure
  • Annual parallax
  • Timing parallax
  • Neutral hydrogen absorption
  • Optical identifications
  • Orbital period derivatives
• The galactic population of pulsars
  • The observed distribution
  • The derived luminosity and spatial distributions
  • Pulsar ages
  • The pulsar birthrate
  • The population of millisecond pulsars
• Assignment 2
• Young Energetic pulsars
  • Basic Properties
  • Finding Young Pulsars
  • Braking Indices and Evolution
  • High Energy Observations
  • Jets
  • Bow Shock and Bullets
• Supernovae and their remnants
  • The nature of supernovae
  • Stellar collapse
  • Luminosity decay
  • Supernovae in binary systems
  • Associations of pulsars and SNRs
• Velocities
  • Interferometry
  • Timing
  • Scintillation
  • Galactic Distribution
  • Birth Velocities
  • Millisecond pulsar Velocities
• Assignment 3
• Pulsar timing
  • Motivation
  • Measuring arrival times
  • Transformations
  • Dynamical Effects
  • Spin down
  • Dispersion Removal
  • Timing Programs
  • Tests of Relativity
• Glitches and timing noise
  • Steps in rotation rate and slowdown rate.
  • The exponential recoveries
  • Adjustments in ellipticity: star quakes
  • Two-component models: crust and superfluid
  • Timing noise
• Assignment 4
• Binary Neutron Stars
  • Binary Radio Pulsars
  • Millisecond Pulsars
  • Binary companions and their orbits
  • X-ray Binaries
  • Evolution in massive binaries
  • Evolution in low mass binaries
  • Eccentricities of pulsar orbits
  • Core-Mass Radius relations
  • Eclipsing MSPs
  • The Masses of Neutron Stars
  • White Dwarf Cooling
  • Orbital Velocities
  • The magnetic fields of the millisecond pulsars
  • Strong v Weak tests
  • Variations in G
  • Constancy of the Chandrasekhar Mass
  • Ultra low Frequency Gravitational Waves
  • Strong Equivalence Principle:
    Solar system
  • Strong Equivalence Principle:
    Binary Pulsars
  • Parameterised post-Newtonian Formalism
  • Invariance of Lorentz Transformations
  • Invariance of Lorentz Transformations
  • Conservation Laws, Lorentz Invariance
• Assignment 5
• Integrated and single pulse profiles
  • The Integrated Profiles
  • Pulse Widths
  • Radio frequency dependence
  • Polarisation
  • Mode changing, Srifting and Nulling
  • Microstructure
• Radiation processes and geometry
  • Polar cap and Outer gap
  • Cyclotron radiation
  • Synchrotron radiation
  • Curvature radiation
  • Coherence in the radio emission
• References
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