| 6th of November 2017 |
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| Spectral properties of 441 radio pulsars |
| by Simon Johnston (CASS) |
| Swinburne student Fabian Jankowski and collaborators have presented the spectral properties of 441 pulsars using observations made with the Parkes radio telescope. They show that most (80%) pulsars have power-law spectra with a mean spectral index of -1.6. The remaining 20% show a variety of behaviour with some examples shown in the Figure. Reference: F. Jankowski, W. van Straten, E.F. Keane, M. Bailes, S. Johnston, M. Kerr 2017, MNRAS, in press (arXiv:1709.08864) |