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Timing irregularities and glitches from the pulsar monitoring campaign at IAR
E. Zubieta, F. Garcia, S. del Palacio, S. B. Araujo Furlan, G. Gancio, C. O. Lousto, J. A. Combi, C. M. Espinoza
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Context. Pulsars have a very stable rotation. However, sudden increases in their rotation frequency known as glitches, perturb their evolution. While large glitches are commonly detected, small glitches are harder to detect because of the lack of daily-cadence observations over long periods of time. Aims. We aim to explore the timing behaviour of young pulsars at daily timescales looking for small glitches and other irregularities. This will further our comprehension of the distribution of glitch sizes, which has also consequences for the theoretical modeling of the glitch mechanism. Methods. We observed six pulsars with up to daily cadence during 5 years with the antennas of the Argentine Institute of Radio Astronomy (IAR). We used standard pulsar timing tools to characterise the rotation of pulsars and developed an algorithm to look for small timing events in the data and calculate the changes in ν and ν̇ at those epochs. Results. We found that the rotation of pulsars in this dataset is affected by small step changes in ν and ν̇. We found three glitches that had not been reported before: two in PSR J1048-5832 with relative sizes Δν/ ν= 9.1(4) ×10⁻¹⁰ and Δν/ ν= 4.5(1) ×10⁻¹⁰, and one in the Vela pulsar with a size Δν/ ν= 2.0(2) ×10⁻¹⁰. We also report new decay terms on the 2021 Vela giant glitch, and on the 2022 giant glitches in PSR J0742-2822 and PSR J1740-3015 respectively. Besides, we found that the red noise contribution significantly diminished in PSR J0742-2822 after its giant glitch in 2022. Conclusions. Our results highlight the importance of high-cadence monitoring with an exhaustive analysis of the residuals to better characterize the distribution of glitch sizes and to deepen our understanding of the mechanisms behind glitches, red noise and timing irregularities.
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