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    Simultaneous observations of giant pulses from the Crab pulsar, with the Murchison Widefield Array and Parkes radio telescope: implications for the giant pulse emission mechanism

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    Authors
    Oronsaye, S.
    Ord, Stephen
    Bhat, Ramesh
    Tremblay, Steven
    McSweeney, Sam
    Tingay, Steven
    Van Straten, W.
    Jameson, A.
    Bernardi, G.
    Bowman, J.
    Briggs, F.
    Cappallo, R.
    Deshpande, A.
    Greenhill, L.
    Hazelton, B.
    Johnston-Hollitt, M.
    Kaplan, D.
    Lonsdale, C.
    McWhirter, S.
    Mitchell, D.
    Morales, M.
    Morgan, E.
    Oberoi, D.
    Prabu, T.
    Shankar, N.
    Srivani, K.
    Subrahmanyan, R.
    Wayth, Randall
    Webster, R.
    Williams, A.
    Williams, C.
    Date
    2015
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Oronsaye, S. and Ord, S. and Bhat, N. and Tremblay, S. and McSweeney, S. and Tingay, S. and Van Straten, W. et al. 2015. Simultaneous observations of giant pulses from the Crab pulsar, with the Murchison Widefield Array and Parkes radio telescope: implications for the giant pulse emission mechanism. Astrophysical Journal. 809: 51.
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    Astrophysical Journal
    DOI
    10.1088/0004-637X/809/1/51
    ISSN
    0004-637X
    School
    Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy (Engineering)
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    Copyright © 2015 The American Astronomical Society

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    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/43493
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    We report on observations of giant pulses from the Crab pulsar performed simultaneously with the Parkes radio telescope and the incoherent combination of the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) antenna tiles. The observations were performed over a duration of approximately one hour at a center frequency of 1382 MHz with 340 MHz bandwidth at Parkes, and at a center frequency of 193 MHz with 15 MHz bandwidth at the MWA. Our analysis has led to the detection of 55 giant pulses at the MWA and 2075 at Parkes above a threshold of 3.5σ and 6.5σ, respectively. We detected 51% of the MWA giant pulses at the Parkes radio telescope, with spectral indices in the range of-3.6 > α > -4.9 (Sv μ ∝ Va). We present a Monte Carlo analysis supporting the conjecture that the giant pulse emission in the Crab is intrinsically broadband, the less than 100% correlation being due to the relative sensitivities of the two instruments and the width of the spectral index distribution. Our observations are consistent with the hypothesis that the spectral index of giant pulses is drawn from normal distribution of standard deviation 0.6, but with a mean that displays an evolution with frequency from −3.00 at 1382 MHz, to −2.85 at 192 MHz.

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