5 papers
The Vela pulsar, the key?
Richard Dodson, Dion Lewis, David Legge +4
Of all pulsars known Vela has been one of the most productive in terms in understanding pulsars and their characteristics. We present the latest results derived from Australian tel…
Measurement of the proper motion of Vela with the LBA
Richard Dodson, David Legge, Peter McCulloch +1
The first accurate measurements of Vela's proper motion were produced using the Parkes-Tidbinbilla Interferometer (PTI) (Bailes et al 1989). This 275 km baseline at 1.6 GHz gave a…
Pulsar observations at Mt. Pleasant
D. R. Lewis, R. G. Dodson, P. D. Ramsdale +1
Two daily pulsar monitoring programs are progressing at the Mount Pleasant Observatory, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. A new system involving the 26-metre radio telescope monitors 10…
High time resolution observations of a Vela glitch
R Dodson, D. R. Lewis, P. M. McCulloch
Pulsars are rotating neutron stars, sweeping the emission regions from the magnetic poles across our line of sight. Isolated neutron stars lose angular momentum through dipole radi…
RXTE Observations of the Vela Pulsar: The X-ray-Optical Connection
Alice K Harding, Mark S. Strickman, Carl Gwinn +2
We report on our analysis of a 300 ks observation of the Vela pulsar with the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer (RXTE). The double-peaked, pulsed emission at 2 - 30 keV, which we had pre…