| Radiometer Equation | Equation that describes the telescope sensitivity | Dewey et al. (1984) |
| FFT | Fast Fourier Transform | Cooley & Tukey (1965) |
| FFA | Fast Folding Algorithm |
Staelin (1969) Kondratiev et al. (2009) Cameron et al. (2017) |
| PRESTO | Description of PRESTO in Scott Ransom's PhD Thesis | Ransom (2001) |
| Acceleration search | On the detectability of pulsars in close binary systems | Johnston & Kulkarni (1991) |
| Phase-modulation binary Searching | Sideband searching and 10% rule in the constant acceleration approximation |
Jouteux et al. (2002) Ransom et al. (2003) |
| Detectability of eccentric binaries | Bagchi et al. (2013) | |
| AI and Machine Learning Candidate selection |
Eatough et al. (2010) Lee et al. (2013) Morello et al. (2014) Zhu et al. (2014) Lyon et al. (2016) Devine et al. (2016) |
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| COBRA | Bayesian approach to pulsar searching |
Lentati et al. (2018) |
| GPU FDAS | GPU-accelerated Fourier Domain Acceleration Search |
Dimoudi et al. (2018) |
| FFTFIT | Fourier-domain based profile cross-correlation for ToA extraction | Taylor (1992) |
| TEMPO | Pulsar timing package | Taylor & Weisberg (1989) |
| TEMPO2 | Timing model and precision estimates | Edwards, Hobbs & Manchester (2006) |
| General Timing Models |
Damour & Deruelle (1985) Damour & Deruelle (1986) Damour & Taylor (1991) Damour & Taylor (1992) Kopeikin (1994) |
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| Shklovskii Effect | Spin and orbital period change due to the pulsar transverse velocity | Shklovskii (1970) |
| Binary Model BT | Simple Keplerian model of the orbit | Blandford & Teukolsky (1976) |
| Binary Model ELL1 | Simple Keplerian model suitable for very low eccentricities | Lange et al. (2001) |
| Binary Model DD | Theory-independent binary model (good for testing theories of gravity) | Damour & Deruelle (1986) |
| Binary Model DDFWHE | Weisberg & Huang (2016) | |
| Binary Model DDK |
Kopeikin (1995) Kopeikin (1996) |
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| FD Model | Frequency-Dependent Profile Evolution | Arzoumanian et al. (2015) |
| Shapiro delay |
Shapiro (1964) Backer & Hellings (1986) |
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| Annual and Orbital Parallaxes |
Kopeikin (1995) |
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| Proper Motion and $\dot{x}$ |
Kopeikin (1996) |
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| 2D-template matching |
Liu et al. (2014) Pennucci et al. (2014) |
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| DM variations |
Backer et al. (1993) You et al. (2007) Keith et al. (2013) Lee et al. (2014) Lam et al. (2015) Lam et al. (2016) |
| Stokes Paramaters | Parameters to describe the polarization state of light |
Stokes (1851) |
| Jones Calculus |
Jones (1941a) Jones (1941b) Jones (1941c) |
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| IAU/IEEE | IAU/IEEE definitions of the Stokes parameters. |
Hamaker & Bregman (1996) |
| PSR/IEEE | PSR/IEEE definitions of the Stokes parameters. |
Kraus (1866) |
| IAU/IEEE - PSR/IEEE comparison |
van Straten et al. (2010) |
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| RVM | Rotating Vector Model |
Radhakrishnan & Cooke (1969) Komesaroff (1970) |
| Polarimetric Invariant Profile | Britton (2000) | |
| Measurement Equation Modeling (MEM) | Calibration method based on multiple obsevations of a reference pulsar taken at many HA's |
van Straten (2004) |
| Matrix Template Matching (MTM) | Technique that uses the full polarimetric information to extract TOAs. Can also be used to calibrate data. |
van Straten (2006) |
| Measurement Equation Template Matching (METM) | Calibration method based on a single observation of a reference pulsar | van Straten (2013) |
| RM Syntesis |
Burn (1966) Brentjens & de Bruyn (2005) Heald (2009) |
|
| ionFR | Code for modelling the ionospheric contribution to the Rotation Measure |
Sotomayor-Beltran et al. (2013) |
| OPMs | Orthogonal Polarization Modes |
Backer et al. (1976) Rankin et al. (1974) Manchester et al. (1975) |
| L&V - Molonglo | A search of the galactic plane for high dispersion pulsars (31 new pulsars) |
Large & Vaughan (1971) |
H&T Arecibo | A deep sample of new pulsars and their spatial extent in the Galaxy (40 new pulsars) |
Hulse & Taylor (1975) |
Davies - Jodrell Bank | The galactic distribution of pulsars (39 new pulsars) |
Davies et al. (1973) |
MOLONGLO-2 | The Second Molonglo pulsar survey |
Manchester et al. (1978) |
PADSS | The Princeton-Arecibo Declination-Strip Survey |
Camilo et al. (1996) |
GBNSS | The Green Bank Northern Sky Survey for Fast Pulsar |
Sayer et al. (1997) |
GBT350 | The Green Bank Telescope 350 MHz Drift-scan survey |
I - Boyles et al. (2013) I - Lynch et al. (2013) |
A430IGS | Arecibo 430 MHz Intermediate Galactic Latitude Survey |
Navarro et al. (2003) |
PSPS | The Parkes Southern Pulsar Survey |
I - Manchester et al. (1996) II - Lyne et al. (1998) III - D'Amico et al. (1998) |
PASURV | The Perseus Arm Pulsar Survey |
Burgay et al. (2013) |
| PMPS | The Parkes Multibeam Pulsar Survey |
I - Manchester et al. (2001) II - Morris et al. (2002) III - Kramer et al. (2003) IV - Hobbs et al. (2004) V - Faulkner et al. (2004) VI - Lorimer et al. (2006) VII - Lorimer et al. (2015) |
| PH | The Parkes High Latitude Pulsar Survey |
Burgay et al. (2006) |
| HTRU-S | The High Time Resolution Survey - South |
I - Keith et al. (2010) II - Bates et al. (2011) III - Burke-Spolaor et al. (2011) IV - Keith et al. (2012) V - Burke-Spolaor et al. (2012) VI - Bates et al. (2012) VII - Burgay et al. (2013) VIII - Levin et al. (2013) IX - Tiburzi et al. (2014) X - Ng et al. (2014) XI - Bates et al. (2015) XII - Ng et al. (2015) XIII - Cameron et al. (2018) XIV - Morello et al. (2019) XV - Burgay et al. (2019) |
| HTRU-N | The High Time Resolution Survey - North |
I - Barr et al. (2013) |
| PALFA | Arecibo Pulsar Survey Using ALFA |
I - Cordes et al. (2006) II - Lorimer et al. (2006) III - Swiggum et al. (2014) IV - Lazarus et al. (2015) RRATs - Deneva et al. (2009) |
| A0327 | Arecibo All-sky 327 MHz Drift Pulsar Survey |
I - Deneva et al. (2013) II - Deneva et al. (2016) |
| GBNCC | The Green Bank Northern Celestial Cap Pulsar Survey |
I - Stovall et al. (2014) II - Kawash et al. (2018) III - Lynch et al. (2018) |
| SUPERB | The SUrvey for Pulsars and Extragalactic Radio Bursts |
I - Keane et al. (2017) II - Bhandari et al. (2018) III - Caleb et al. (2018) |
| GHRSS | The GMRT High Resolution Southern Sky Survey for Pulsars and Transients |
I - Bhattacharyya et al. (2016) |
| LPPS | The LOFAR pilot surveys for pulsars and fast radio transients |
I - Coenen et al. (2014) |
| LOTAAS | The LOFAR Tied-Array All-Sky Survey |
I - Sanidas et al. (2019) |
| Hellings & Downs curve | Prediction of the expected cross-correlation of the residuals of pulsars in various sky positions |
Hellings & Downs (1983) |
| EPTA | The European Pulsar Timing Array and the Large European Array for Pulsars |
Kramer & Champion (2013) |
| PPTA | The Parkes Pulsar Timing Array |
Hobbs (2013) |
| NANOgrav | The North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves |
McLaughlin (2013) |
| IPTA | The International Pulsar Timing Array |
Manchester (2013) |
| PPTA Data Release 1 (DR1) |
Manchester et al. (2013) |
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| EPTA Data Release 1 (DR1) |
Desvignes et al. (2016) |
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| IPTA Data Release 1 (DR1) |
Verbiest et al. (2016) |
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| LEAP | The Large European Array for Pulsars |
Bassa et al. (2016) |
| General Relativity | Einstein's theory of gravity | Einstein (1915) |
| First confirmation of GR | Einstein's theory of gravity | Eddington (1919) |
| Brans-Dicke | Alternative theory of Gravity | Brans & Dicke (1961) |
| TEVES (?) | Tensor-multi-scalar theories of gravitation | Damour & Esposito-Farese (1992) |
| Most stringent test of GR | Test with the Double Pulsar | Kramer et al. (2006) |
| Pulsar-Black hole binaries | Liu et al. (2014) |
| Reviews on Pulsars in GC |
Pulsars in Globular Clusters Twenty Years of Searching for (and Finding) Globular Cluster Pulsars Pulsars in Globular Clusters The pulsar population in Globular Clusters and in the Galaxy Pulsars in Globular Clusters with the SKA |
Camilo & Rasio (2005) Ransom (2008a) Ransom (2008b) Freire (2013) Hessels et al. (2015) |
| X-ray Binaries in GCs |
Clark et al. (1975) |
| Thin Screen Model | Simplest model to explain observed scattering and scintillation in pulsars | Scheuer (1968) |
| NE2001 | Electron Density model of the Milky Way |
Cordes & Lazio (2002a) Cordes & Lazio (2002b) |
| YMW16 | New Electron Density model of the Milky Way, refinement of NE2001 |
Yao et al. (2016) |
| Scattering Timescale | Empirical relation between DM and scattering timescale, as a function of frequency |
Bhat et al. (2004) |
| Milky Way gravitational potential |
McMillan (2017) |
| Chandrasekhar Limit | Maximum mass that a WD can have |
Anderson (1929) Chandrasekhar (1931a) Chandrasekhar (1931b) Chandrasekhar (1935) |
| Supernova Explosion | How NS form |
Heger et al. (2003) |
| Structure of the NS |
Oppenheimer & Volkoff (1939) Tolman (1939) Lattimer & Prakash (2001) Antoniadis et al. (2013) Steiner et al. (2013) |
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| Maximum allowed NS mass | 2.9 ${M}_\odot$ |
Kalogera & Baym (1996) |
| Recycling Model | How MSPs form |
Alpar et al. (1982) Radhakrishnan & Srinivasan (1982) Bhattacharya & van den Heuvel (1991) Podsiadlowski et al. (2002) Papitto et al. (2013) |
| Spin-up line | Shortest period that can be reached by spin-up due to accretion at the Eddington limit onto a NS |
Pringle & Rees (1972) |
| Formation of Pulsars − CO-WD systems |
Tauris et al. (2000) Tauris, Langer & Kramer (2011) Tauris, Langer & Kramer (2012) |
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| Formation of Pulsars − He-WD systems |
Tauris & Savonije (1999) |
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| Formation of eccentric pulsar-WD binaries | Via rotationally-delayed accretion-induced collapse (RDAIC) Via the interaction of the binary with a circumstellar disk |
Freire & Tauris (2014) Antoniadis (2014) |
| Ultra-stripped Type Ic Supernovae |
Tauris et al. (2013) Tauris et al. (2015) |
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| Formation of double neutron star systems |
Tauris et al. (2017) |
| First Accreting Millisecond Pulsar (AMXP) | Wijnands & van der Klis (1998) | |
| Chandra Pulsar Survey | Kargaltsev et al. (2012) | |
| LAT | Fermi Large Area Telescope instrument | Atwood et al. (2009) |
| 1FGL | 1st Fermi Large Area Telescope Source Catalog | Abdo et al. (2010) |
| 2FGL | 2nd Fermi Large Area Telescope Source Catalog | Nolan et al. (2012) |
| 3FGL | 3rd Fermi Large Area Telescope Source Catalog | Acero et al. (2015) |
| First γ-ray pulsar in a GC | J1823−3021A in NGC 6624 | Freire et al. (2011) |
| Pulsar Electrodynamics |
Goldreich & Julian (1969) Spitkovsky (2004) |
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| Pulsar Death Lines and Death Valley |
Chen & Ruderman (1993) |
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| Toward an Empirical Theory of Pulsar Emission | I - Morphological taxonomy II - On the Spectral Behavior of Component Width III - Mode changing, drifting subpulses, and pulse nulling IV - Geometry of the core emission region V - On the circular polarization in pulsar radiation VI - The geometry of the conal emission region VII - On the Spectral Behavior of Conal Beam Radii and Emission Heights VIII - Subbeam Circulation and the Polarization-Modal Structure of Conal Beams IX - On the Peculiar Properties and Geometric Regularity of Lyne and Manchester's "Partial Cone" Pulsars X - On the Precursor and Postcursor Emission XI - Understanding the Orientations of Pulsar Radiation and Supernova "Kicks" |
I - Rankin (1983a) II - Rankin (1983b) III - Rankin (1986) IV - Rankin (1990a) V - Rankin (1990b) VI - Rankin (1993a), Rankin (1993b) VII - Mitra & Rankin (2002) VIII - Rankin & Ramachandran (2003) IX - Mitra & Rankin (2011) X - Basu et al. (2015) XI - Rankin (2015) |
| The Characteristics of Millisecond Pulsar Emission | I - Spectra, Pulse Shapes, and the Beaming Fraction II - Polarimetry III - From Low to High Frequencies |
I - Kramer et al. (1998) II - Xilouris et al. (1998) III - Kramer et al. (1999) |
| Origin of pulsar radio emission | I - High frequency data. |
I - Kramer et al. (1997) |
| Spectrum of radio emission / Spectral indeces |
Maron et al. (2000) Kramer et al. (1998) Toscano et al. (1998) |
|
| Low-frequency spectral turnovers in pulsars |
Sieber (1973) |
|
| GHz spectral turnovers in pulsars |
Kijak et al. (2007) Kijak et al. (2011) Rajwade et al. (2016) |
|
| Two-Dimensional Structure of Pulsar Beams |
Gil et al. (1993) |
|
| Structure of pulsar beams: Conal versus patchy |
Kijak & Gil (2002) |
| First Pulsar Discovered | Pulsar PSR B1919+21 |
Hewish et al. (1968) Pilkington et al. (1968) |
| First Binary Pulsar Discovered | Pulsar PSR B1913+16 ("Nobel Prize" pulsar) | Hulse & Taylor (1975) |
| First Millisecond Pulsar Discovered | Pulsar PSR B1937+21 | Backer et al. (1982) |
| First Radio Pulsar in a Globular Cluster Discovered | Pulsar PSR B1821−24A in M28 | Lyne et al. (1987) |
| First γ-ray pulsar in a GC | Pulsar PSR J1823−3021A in NGC 6624 | Freire et al. (2011) |
| Fastest Pulsar Known | Eclipsing binary pulsar PSR J1748−2446ad in Terzan 5 (spin frequency of 716 Hz) | Hessels et al. (2006) |
| Slowest Pulsar Known | Isolated pulsar PSR J0250+5854 (spin period of 23.535 s) | Tan et al. (2018) |
| Most Massive Pulsar Known | PSR J0348+0432 | Antoniadis et al. (2013) |
| Least Massive Neutron Star known | 1.174 +/- 0.004 M$_\odot$ in the companion of PSR J0453+1559 | Martinez et al. (2015) |
| Most eccentric binary pulsar known | Martinez et al. (2015) | |
| Pulsar with highest NS birth mass | PSR J2222-0137 | Cognard et al. (2017) |
| Most Polarized Pulsar Known | PSR B1929+10 |
Phillips (1990) Rankin & Rathnasree (1997) |
| Brightest and Closest Millisecond Pulsar Known | PSR J0437−4715 | Johnston et al. (1993) |
| Double Pulsar | PSR J0737−3039A/B |
Burgay et al. (2003) Lyne et al. (2004) Kramer et al. (2006) |
| Extra-Galactic Pulsars | Pulsars discovered in the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds |
Crawford et al. (2001) Camilo et al. (2006) |
| First Rotating Radio Transient | <
McLaughlin et al. (2006) |
|
| First Magnetar Discovered |
Duncan & Thompson (1992) |
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| First Magnetar Visible in Radio Discovered |
Camilo et al. (2006) |
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| Highest Frequency Detection of a Radio Pulsar | Magnetar SGR J1745-2900 detected at 225 GHz |
Torne et al. (2015) |
| WSRT | Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope, located near Westerbork, The Netherlands |
Baars & Hooghoudt (1974) |
| IRAM 30-m | The IRAM 30-m millimeter radio telescope located on Pico Veleta, near Granada, Spain |
Baars et al. (1987) |
| LOFAR | Low Frequency Array, located in France, Germany, The Netherlands, England, Sweden |
van Haarlem et al. (2013) Stappers et al. (2011) |
| SRT | 64-m single-dish telescope located in Sardinia, Italy |
Bolli et al. (2015) |
| GMRT | Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope array located in Maharashtra, India |
Swarup (1991) |
| uGMRT | Upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope array located in Maharashtra, India |
Gupta et al. (2017) |
| eGMRT | Expanded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope array located in Maharashtra, India |
Petra et al. (2019) |
| LWA | Long Wavelength Array located in New Mexico, USA |
Kassim et al. (2010) |
| MWA | Murchison Widefield Array located in South Murchison, Australia |
Mitchell et al. (2010) |
| FAST | Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope located in China |
Smits et al. (2009) Nan et al. (2011) |
| CHIME |
Ng (2017) |
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| MeerKAT | Array of sixty-four 13.5-m dishes located in South Africa |
Booth & Jonas (2012) |
| SKA | Square Kilometre Array located in South Africa and Australia |
Garrett et al. (2010) Combes (2015) |
| PMB | Parkes Multi-beam receiver |
Staveley-Smith et al. (1996) |
| UWL | Ultra-Wideband Low-frequency at Parkes |
Manchester (2015) |
| FITS formats | Flexible Image Transport System |
Pence et al. (2010) |
| PSRFITS formats | Flexible Image Transport System for Pulsar Observations |
Hotan et al. (2004) |
| Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem | Theorem that states that a signal that contains a maximum frequency $f$ must be sampled at the frequency $2 f$ in order not to lose information |
Nyquist (1928) Shannon (1949) |
| Coherent dedispersion | Technique to completely remove the intra-channel dispersive smearing | Hankins & Rickett (1975) |
| Coherent dedispersion at GMRT | Pipeline used at the GMRT to do coherent dedispersion in real time | De & Gupta (2016) |
| GUPPI / PUPPI | GBT / Arecibo Ultimate Pulsar Processing Instrument | DuPlain et al. (2008) |
| GASP / ASP | GBT / Arecibo Astronomical Signal Processor | Demorest (2007) |
| BCPMs | GBT Backend | Backer et al. (1997) |
| Spigot | GBT Backend | Kaplan et al. (2005) |
| Penn State Pulsar Machine (PSPM) | Arecibo Backend | Cadwell (1997) |
| Princeton Mark III | Arecibo Backend | Stinebring et al. (1992) |
| Princeton Mark IV | Arecibo Backend | Stairs et al. (2000) |
| XCOR (?) | Arecibo Backend | Cordes (1988) |
| ABPP | Arecibo Backend | Backer et al. (1997) |
| CBR | Arecibo Backend | Jenet et al. (1997) |
| WAPP | Arecibo Backend | Dowd et al. (2000) |
| EPOS | Effelsberg Backend | Jessner (1996) |
| EBPP | Effelsberg Backend | Backer et al. (1997) |
| PSRIX | Effelsberg Backend | Lazarus et al. (2016) |
| PuMa-I | Westerbork Backend | Voûte et al. (2002) |
| PuMa-II | Westerbork Backend | Karuppusamy et al. (2008) |
| CPSR2 | Parkes Backend |
Bailes (2003) Hotan (2007) |
| HIPSR | Parkes Backend |
Price et al. (2017) |
| A Wideband Digital Back-End | uGMRT Backend |
Reddy et al. (2017) |
| SARDARA | SRT Backend |
Melis et al. (2018) |
| ARTEMIS | LOFAR Software Backend |
Karastergiou et al. (2015) |
| PSRCAT | ATNF Radio Pulsar Catalogue | Manchester et al. (2005) |
| SIGPROC | Time-domain pulsar search package | Ransom (2001) |
| PRESTO | Description of PRESTO in Scott Ransom's PhD Thesis | Ransom (2001) |
| DSPSR | van Straten & Bailes (2011) | |
| PSRCHIVE |
Hotan et al. (2004) van Straten et al. (2012) |
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| TEMPO2 |
Hobbs et al. (2006) Edwards et al. (2006) |
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| PSRPOPPy | An open-source package for pulsar population simulations |
Bates et al. (2014) |
| DE405 | Solar System Ephemeris |
Standish (1998) |
| DE421 | Solar System Ephemeris |
Folkner et al. (2009) |
| DE430 | Solar System Ephemeris |
Folkner et al. (2014) |
| Structure and Kinematics of the Milky Way |
Reid et al. (2014) |