Tuesday. Leiden day 2.
1212.1716
Rotating radio transients and their place among pulsars
Burke-Spolaor
* rotating radio transient: sources of short, moderately bright, radio pulses, thought to be pulsars (rotating magnetised neutron stars) which emit more sporadically and/or with higher pulse-to-pulse variability than the bulk of the known pulsars. More discoverable searching for bright single pulses (vs. Fourier domain searches); does not represent a distinct class of objects from pulsars.
A large subset of RRATs appear to represent the tail of an extended distribution of pulsar nulling fractions and activity cycles; these objects present several key open questions remaining in this field.
1212.1716
Rotating radio transients and their place among pulsars
Burke-Spolaor
* rotating radio transient: sources of short, moderately bright, radio pulses, thought to be pulsars (rotating magnetised neutron stars) which emit more sporadically and/or with higher pulse-to-pulse variability than the bulk of the known pulsars. More discoverable searching for bright single pulses (vs. Fourier domain searches); does not represent a distinct class of objects from pulsars.
A large subset of RRATs appear to represent the tail of an extended distribution of pulsar nulling fractions and activity cycles; these objects present several key open questions remaining in this field.
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