Vol 25, No 1

Statistical Research on Megahertz-peaked Spectra Pulsars

Hong-Bing Cai, Li Chen, Shi-Dang Li, Kai Wang and Hang Liu

Abstract

Megahertz-peaked spectra (MPS) pulsars are referred as cases whose radio spectra turn over around 100 MHz. We identified 53 MPS pulsars based on the spectral data from the literature, and statistically analyzed the spatial location distribution, the magnetic field-period distribution, peak frequencies, spectral indices, and dispersion measures of these MPS pulsars. We found that there is a strong positive correlation between the dispersion measures and the peak frequencies of MPS pulsars, and negative correlations of the dispersion measures with spectral indices and the ages are also found. Such correlations suggest that the interstellar medium is an important factor that affects observational properties of MPS pulsars.

Keywords

Key words: (stars:) pulsars: general– radio continuum: general– ISM: general

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