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Pulsar Timing with the Parkes Radio Telescope for the Fermi Mission
P.
Weltevrede A,
S.
Johnston B F,
R. N.
Manchester A,
R.
Bhat B,
M.
Burgay C,
D.
Champion A,
G. B.
Hobbs A,
B.
Kızıltan D,
M.
Keith A,
A.
Possenti C,
J. E.
Reynolds A,
K.
Watters E
A
Australia Telescope National Facility, CSIRO, PO Box 76, Epping, NSW 1710
B
Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology, Mail H39, PO Box 218, Hawthorn, Vic 3122
C
INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari, I-09012 Capoterra, Italy
D
Dept of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of California & UCO Lick Observatory, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
E
Dept of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
F
Corresponding author. Email: Simon.Johnston@csiro.au
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia 27(1) 64–75 http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/AS09054
Submitted: 17 August 2009
Accepted: 30 September 2009
Published online: 11 March 2010
Abstract
We report here on two years of timing of 168 pulsars using the Parkes radio telescope. The vast majority of these pulsars have spin-down luminosities in excess of 1034 erg s–1 and are prime target candidates to be detected in gamma-rays by the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope. We provide the ephemerides for the ten pulsars being timed at Parkes which have been detected by Fermi in its first year of operation. These ephemerides, in conjunction with the publicly available photon list, can be used to generate gamma-ray profiles from the Fermi archive. We will make the ephemerides of any pulsars of interest available to the community upon request. In addition to the timing ephemerides, we present the parameters for 14 glitches which have occurred in 13 pulsars, seven of which have no previously known glitch history. The Parkes timing programme, in conjunction with Fermi observations, is expected to continue for at least the next four years.
Keywords:
pulsars: ephemerides — pulsars: general — pulsars: glitches
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