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| Year | Category | Logs |
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| 1851 | Polarization | Stokes Parameters Parameters to describe the polarization state of light Reference: Stokes (1851) |
| 1865 | Radio Emission Mechanism | Electromagnetic field theory Maxwell unified electricity, magnetism and light and predicted electromagnetic-wave propagation. Pulsar radio emission, magnetospheric electrodynamics and propagation theory ultimately rest on this framework. Reference: Maxwell (1865) |
| 1866 | Polarization | PSR/IEEE PSR/IEEE definitions of the Stokes parameters. Reference: Kraus (1866) |
| 1884 | Radio Emission Mechanism | Poynting flux and electromagnetic energy transport Poynting identified the electromagnetic energy-flux vector. It is used directly in pulsar spin-down power, magnetospheric energy flow, pulsar winds and electromagnetic torque calculations. Reference: Poynting (1884) |
| 1887-1888 | Radio Emission Mechanism | Experimental production and detection of radio waves Hertz experimentally verified Maxwellian electromagnetic waves and demonstrated their reflection, refraction and polarization. This supplied the experimental foundation of radio communication and radio astronomy. Reference: Hertz (1887-1888) |
| 1897 | Radio Emission Mechanism | Discovery and characterization of the electron Thomson identified a universal negatively charged particle. Electrons and positrons are the basic constituents of pulsar magnetospheric pair plasma and the ionized interstellar medium. Reference: Thomson (1897) |
| 1897-1898 | Radio Emission Mechanism | Radiation from accelerated charges Larmor derived the power radiated by an accelerating charge. The result is ancestral to curvature, cyclotron and synchrotron radiation treatments used throughout pulsar astrophysics. Reference: Larmor (1897-1898) |
| 1901 | Radio Emission Mechanism | Quantum radiation law Planck derived the blackbody spectrum using quantized energy elements. The result underlies neutron-star thermal emission, brightness-temperature concepts and photon-based radiation physics. Reference: Planck (1901) |
| 1905 | Gravity Tests | Special relativity Einstein established relativistic kinematics. Relativistic beaming, aberration, Doppler effects, particle motion and timing transformations are indispensable in pulsar astronomy. Reference: Einstein (1905) |
| 1915 | Gravity Tests | General Relativity Einstein formulated the gravitational field equations. General relativity governs neutron-star structure and enables pulsar tests involving periastron advance, gravitational redshift, Shapiro delay and orbital decay. Reference: Einstein (1915-1916) |
| 1919 | Gravity Tests | First confirmation of GR Einstein's theory of gravity Reference: Eddington (1919) |
| 1926 | Formation | Fermi-Dirac statistics Fermi and Dirac developed quantum statistics for identical fermions. Degeneracy pressure and dense fermionic matter are fundamental to white dwarfs, neutron stars and their equations of state. |
| 1928, 1949 | Receivers & Backends | 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 |
| 1928 | Radio Emission Mechanism | Collective plasma oscillations Langmuir and Tonks developed the collective description of oscillations in ionized gases. Plasma frequency, screening and collective modes remain central to pulsar magnetospheres, coherent-emission models and propagation. Reference: Langmuir & Tonks (1928) |
| 1929, 1931, 1935 | Formation | Chandrasekhar Limit Maximum mass that a WD can have |
| 1932 | Formation | Discovery of the neutron Chadwick established the neutron as a fundamental particle. This made neutron stars physically plausible and provided the constituent particle implied by their name. Reference: Chadwick (1932) |
| 1933 | Records | Birth of radio astronomy Jansky identified extraterrestrial radio emission from the direction of the Galactic centre. This opened the observing domain in which pulsars would later be discovered. Reference: Jansky (1933) |
| 1934 | Formation | Neutron stars proposed as supernova remnants Baade and Zwicky explicitly proposed that supernovae produce neutron stars. This was the first direct astrophysical prediction of the objects later identified observationally as pulsars. Reference: Baade & Zwicky (1934) |
| 1939, 2001, 2013 | Formation | Structure of the NS Oppenheimer and Volkoff derived hydrostatic equilibrium for a relativistic star made of neutron matter. The resulting TOV framework remains the standard basis of neutron-star mass-radius calculations. |
| 1941 | Polarization | Jones Calculus |
| 1942 | Radio Emission Mechanism | Alfven waves and magnetohydrodynamics Alfven introduced waves carried by magnetic tension in conducting plasma. MHD and Alfvenic disturbances are fundamental to pulsar magnetospheres, winds, current systems and nebulae. Reference: Alfven (1942) |
| 1946 | Receivers & Backends | Microwave radiometer and radiometer sensitivity Dicke developed switched microwave radiometry and quantified receiver-noise sensitivity. The radiometer equation remains basic to pulsar detectability, telescope sensitivity and observing-time estimates. Reference: Dicke (1946) |
| 1946 | Receivers & Backends | Radio interferometry Ryle and Vonberg demonstrated astronomical radio interferometry. Its descendants provide pulsar positions, proper motions, parallaxes, scattering images and associations with nebulae or binaries. Reference: Ryle & Vonberg (1946) |
| 1948 | Receivers & Backends | Information theory and noisy communication Shannon formalized information, bandwidth and communication through noise. Digital sampling, channelization, data compression and signal-detection concepts used in pulsar backends descend from this work. Reference: Shannon (1948) |
| 1949 | Radio Emission Mechanism | Classical synchrotron-radiation theory Schwinger provided a systematic relativistic treatment of radiation from electrons in magnetic fields. Synchrotron emission is central to pulsar wind nebulae and important in high-energy magnetospheric models. Reference: Schwinger (1949) |
| 1951 | ISM & Galaxy | Detection of Galactic 21-cm hydrogen emission Radio detection of the neutral-hydrogen line enabled mapping of Galactic gas and kinematics. H I absorption and emission remain useful for constraining pulsar distances and line-of-sight environments. |
| 1956 | Radio Emission Mechanism | Intensity interferometry and radiation coherence Hanbury Brown and Twiss demonstrated measurable intensity correlations in light. Their work established modern second-order coherence concepts relevant to fluctuating radiation, photon statistics and some pulsar coherence studies. Reference: Hanbury Brown & Twiss (1956) |
| 1957 | Telescopes | Lovell Size: 76 m Country: England Visibility: -37, +90 deg Reference: Lovell Telescope |
| 1961 | Gravity Tests | Brans-Dicke Alternative theory of Gravity Reference: Brans & Dicke (1961) |
| 1961 | Telescopes | Parkes Size: 64 m Country: Australia Visibility: -90, +57 deg Receivers: 13-beam L-band Pulsar Backends: DFB4 |
| 1962 | X-ray / Gamma-Ray | Opening of extrasolar X-ray astronomy Giacconi and collaborators detected Scorpius X-1 and the cosmic X-ray background. X-ray astronomy later became essential for rotation-powered pulsars, accreting pulsars, magnetars and neutron-star thermal emission. Reference: Giacconi et al. (1962) |
| 1963 | Telescopes | Arecibo Size: 305 m Country: Puerto Rico Visibility: +0, +38 deg Receivers: 327MHz (312 - 342 MHz) Pulsar Backends: Mock Spectrometers |
| 1964, 1986 | Timing | Shapiro delay |
| 1964 | Search | Interplanetary scintillation of compact radio sources Hewish, Scott and Wills established interplanetary scintillation as a probe of compact radio sources. The Cambridge scintillation survey and its chart records directly created the observational route to pulsar discovery. Reference: Hewish et al. (1964) |
| 1965 | Search | FFT Fast Fourier Transform Reference: Cooley & Tukey (1965) |
| 1966, 2005, 2009 | Polarization | RM Synthesis |
| 1967 | Formation | Rotating magnetized neutron star as an energy source Pacini proposed that a rapidly rotating, strongly magnetized neutron star could power the Crab Nebula. This was the key theoretical precursor immediately before pulsars were recognized. Reference: Pacini (1967) |
| 1967 | Records | First pulsar signal detected Jocelyn Bell Burnell identified the first regularly pulsing celestial radio source in Cambridge interplanetary-scintillation records in August 1967. It established the observational existence of pulsars; the discovery paper was published in 1968. Reference: Hewish et al. (1968) |
| 1968 | ISM & Galaxy | Thin Screen Model Simplest model to explain observed scattering and scintillation in pulsars Reference: Scheuer (1968) |
| 1968 | Formation | Pulsars as neutron stars Gold and Pacini independently argued that pulsars are rotating neutron stars, establishing the physical interpretation of pulsars soon after their discovery. |
| 1968 | Records | First Pulsar Discovered Pulsar PSR B1919+21 |
| 1969, 2009, 2017 | Search | FFA Fast Folding Algorithm |
| 1969, 1970 | Polarization | RVM Rotating Vector Model |
| 1969, 2004 | Radio Emission Mechanism | Pulsar Electrodynamics |
| 1969 | Records | Crab Pulsar discovered The Crab Pulsar, PSR B0531+21, was discovered and strongly linked pulsars to supernova remnants. |
| 1970 | Telescopes | Ooty Radio Telescope (ORT) 530 m x 30 m cylindrical parabolic radio telescope near Ooty, India, operated by NCRA-TIFR; a prominent low-frequency Indian facility used for pulsar and heliospheric studies. Reference: Ooty Radio Telescope |
| 1970, 1994 | Timing | Shklovskii Effect Spin and orbital period change due to the pulsar transverse velocity |
| 1970, 1978 | Radio Emission Mechanism | Radius-to-frequency mapping Pulse width and the separation of profile components systematically increase at lower observing frequencies. Komesaroff proposed this as a consequence of higher-frequency emission being produced closer to the neutron-star surface than lower-frequency emission; this became known as radius-to-frequency mapping. |
| 1971 | Surveys | L&V - Molonglo A search of the galactic plane for high dispersion pulsars (31 new pulsars) Reference: Large & Vaughan (1971) |
| 1971 | X-ray / Gamma-Ray | First X-ray pulsar Cen X-3 was discovered as an X-ray pulsar, showing that pulsars can emit strongly at X-ray wavelengths. Reference: Giacconi et al. (1971) |
| 1972, 2013 | Formation | Spin-up line Shortest period that can be reached by spin-up due to accretion at the Eddington limit onto a NS |
| 1972 | Telescopes | Effelsberg Size: 100 m Country: Germany Visibility: -31, +90 deg Receivers: Single Pixel L-band (1.3 - 1.8 GHz) Pulsar Backends: PSRFBs |
| 1973 | Surveys | Davies - Jodrell Bank The galactic distribution of pulsars (39 new pulsars) Reference: Davies et al. (1973) |
| 1973 | Radio Emission Mechanism | Low-frequency spectral turnovers in pulsars Reference: Sieber (1973) |
| 1974, 1975, 1976 | Polarization | OPMs Orthogonal Polarization Modes |
| 1976 | Telescopes | Gauribidanur Radio Observatory Decametre-wave radio observatory near Bengaluru, India, operated by the Indian Institute of Astrophysics and Raman Research Institute; includes the GEETEE low-frequency array. Reference: Gauribidanur Radio Observatory |
| 1974, 1975, 1993 | Records | First Binary Pulsar Discovered Joseph Taylor and Russell Hulse discovered PSR B1913+16, the first binary pulsar. Its orbital decay provided indirect evidence for gravitational waves, and the discovery led to the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics. Reference: Hulse & Taylor (1975), Nobel Prize (1993) |
| 1974 | Telescopes | WSRT Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope, located near Westerbork, The Netherlands Reference: Baars & Hooghoudt (1974) |
| 1975 | Surveys | H&T Arecibo A deep sample of new pulsars and their spatial extent in the Galaxy (40 new pulsars) Reference: Hulse & Taylor (1975) |
| 1975, 2015 | Globular Clusters | X-ray Binaries in GCs Pulsars in Globular Clusters with the SKA |
| 1975 | High Energy Emission Mechanism | Ruderman-Sutherland polar gap model The Ruderman-Sutherland model introduced an inner polar gap above the neutron-star magnetic pole, where intense electric fields accelerate particles to ultra-relativistic speeds; it became a foundational framework for coherent radio emission and drifting subpulses. Reference: Ruderman & Sutherland (1975) |
| 1975 | Receivers & Backends | Coherent dedispersion Technique to completely remove the intra-channel dispersive smearing Reference: Hankins & Rickett (1975) |
| 1976 | Timing | Binary Model BT Simple Keplerian model of the orbit Reference: Blandford & Teukolsky (1976) |
| 1977 | Radio Emission Mechanism | Interpulse alternative hypothesis Manchester and Lyne proposed that interpulses can represent emission from the extreme edges of a single wide beam. Reference: Manchester & Lyne (1977) |
| 1978 | Surveys | MOLONGLO-2 The Second Molonglo pulsar survey Reference: Manchester et al. (1978) |
| 1979 | High Energy Emission Mechanism | Space-charge-limited flow polar cap model The SCLF polar-cap model assumes charges freely escape the stellar surface; acceleration occurs because the relativistic plasma flow cannot adjust its charge density quickly enough to match the changing geometry of curved magnetic field lines. Reference: Arons & Scharlemann (1979) |
| 1982, 1996, 2013 | Formation | Maximum allowed NS mass 2.9 ${M}_\odot$ |
| 1982, 1991, 2002 | Formation | Recycling Model How MSPs form |
| 1982 | Records | First Millisecond Pulsar Discovered PSR B1937+21, the first millisecond pulsar, has a rotation period of about 1.6 ms. Reference: Backer et al. (1982) |
| 1983 | Timing | Hellings & Downs curve Prediction of the expected cross-correlation of the residuals of pulsars in various sky positions Reference: Hellings & Downs (1983) |
| 1983, 1993 | Radio Emission Mechanism | Pulsar Death Lines and Death Valley I - Morphological taxonomy II - On the Spectral Behavior of Component Width |
| 1983 | High Energy Emission Mechanism | Original slot gap model The original slot gap model recognized that near the edge of the open field-line region the accelerating potential drops to zero, delaying pair production to higher altitudes and leaving a narrow unscreened acceleration slot. Reference: Arons (1983) |
| 1983 | Records | First extragalactic pulsar PSR B0529-66 was discovered in the Large Magellanic Cloud, extending pulsar studies beyond the Milky Way. Reference: McCulloch et al. (1983) |
| 1984 | Search | Radiometer Equation Equation that describes the telescope sensitivity Reference: Dewey et al. (1984) |
| 1985, 2006 | Software | TEMPO2 Timing model and precision estimates; pulsar timing package. |
| 1986 | Timing | Binary Model DD Theory-independent binary model (good for testing theories of gravity) Reference: Damour & Deruelle (1986) |
| 1986, 1991, 1992 | Timing | General Timing Models |
| 1986, 1990, 1993, 2002, 2003, 2011 | Radio Emission Mechanism | Toward an Empirical Theory of Pulsar Emission 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 |
| 1986 | High Energy Emission Mechanism | Classic outer gap model The classic outer gap model places a vacuum gap near the null charge surface, sustained by gamma-ray photon collisions rather than strong magnetic fields. Reference: Cheng, Ho, & Ruderman (1986) |
| 1987 | Records | First Radio Pulsar in a Globular Cluster Discovered Pulsar PSR B1821-24A in M28 Reference: Lyne et al. (1987) |
| 1987 | Telescopes | IRAM 30-m The IRAM 30-m millimeter radio telescope located on Pico Veleta, near Granada, Spain Size: 30 m Country: Spain Visibility: -53, +90 deg Receivers: EMIR E0 (73 - 117 GHz) Pulsar Backends: ROACH2 |
| 1988 | Receivers & Backends | XCOR (?) Arecibo Backend Reference: Cordes (1988) |
| 1989 | Software | TEMPO Pulsar timing package. |
| 1990, 1997 | Records | Most Polarized Pulsar Known PSR B1929+10 |
| 1991 | Search | Acceleration search On the detectability of pulsars in close binary systems Reference: Johnston & Kulkarni (1991) |
| 1991, 2017 | Telescopes | GMRT / uGMRT Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope near Pune, India; the legacy GMRT system was upgraded into uGMRT with wideband receivers and digital backends. |
| 1992 | Timing | FFTFIT Fourier-domain based profile cross-correlation for ToA extraction Reference: Taylor (1992) |
| 1992 | Gravity Tests | TEVES (?) Tensor-multi-scalar theories of gravitation Reference: Damour & Esposito-Farese (1992) |
| 1992 | Records | First Magnetar Discovered Reference: Duncan & Thompson (1992) |
| 1992, 1994 | Records | First pulsar planetary system The B1257+12 planetary system, discovered by Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail at Arecibo from observations made in 1990, contains two Earth-mass planets and one lunar-mass planet. It was the first extrasolar planetary system to be discovered. |
| 1992 | Receivers & Backends | Princeton Mark III Arecibo Backend Reference: Stinebring et al. (1992) |
| 1993, 2014 | Timing | 2D-template matching |
| 1993 | Radio Emission Mechanism | Two-Dimensional Structure of Pulsar Beams Reference: Gil et al. (1993) |
| 1993 | Records | Brightest and Closest Millisecond Pulsar Known PSR J0437-4715 Reference: Johnston et al. (1993) |
| 1993, 2003 | Records | First pulsar triple system B1620-26 is a pulsar, white dwarf, and Jupiter-mass planet system identified by Stephen Thorsett and collaborators in the globular cluster M4, highlighting the rich variety of evolutionary scenarios possible in globular clusters. |
| 1993 | Databases & Data Releases | Princeton Pulsar Catalogue Historical catalogue of 558 pulsars and their measured parameters. Reference: Taylor, Manchester & Lyne (1993) |
| 1995 | Timing | Annual and Orbital Parallaxes Reference: Kopeikin (1995) |
| 1995, 1996 | Timing | Binary Model DDK |
| 1996 | Timing | Proper Motion and $\dot{x}$ Reference: Kopeikin (1996) |
| 1996 | Polarization | IAU/IEEE IAU/IEEE definitions of the Stokes parameters. Reference: Hamaker & Bregman (1996) |
| 1996 | Surveys | PADSS The Princeton-Arecibo Declination-Strip Survey Reference: Camilo et al. (1996) |
| 1996, 1998 | Surveys | PSPS The Parkes Southern Pulsar Survey |
| 1996 | High Energy Emission Mechanism | Extended 3D outer gap model The extended outer gap model added special-relativistic geometry and radiation-reaction limits to reproduce wide, double-peaked gamma-ray pulse profiles. Reference: Romani (1996) |
| 1996 | Receivers & Backends | PMB Parkes Multi-beam receiver Reference: Staveley-Smith et al. (1996) |
| 1996 | Receivers & Backends | EPOS Effelsberg Backend Reference: Jessner (1996) |
| 1996 | Databases & Data Releases | EPN Database of Pulsar Profiles Standardised integrated pulse profiles, downloadable in PSRFITS, text, and original formats. |
| 1997 | Surveys | GBNSS The Green Bank Northern Sky Survey for Fast Pulsar Reference: Sayer et al. (1997) |
| 1997 | Radio Emission Mechanism | Origin of pulsar radio emission I - High frequency data. Reference: I - Kramer et al. (1997) |
| 1997 | Receivers & Backends | ABPP Arecibo Backend Reference: Backer et al. (1997) |
| 1997 | Receivers & Backends | BCPMs GBT Backend Reference: Backer et al. (1997) |
| 1997 | Receivers & Backends | CBR Arecibo Backend Reference: Jenet et al. (1997) |
| 1997 | Receivers & Backends | EBPP Effelsberg Backend Reference: Backer et al. (1997) |
| 1997 | Receivers & Backends | Penn State Pulsar Machine (PSPM) Arecibo Backend Reference: Cadwell (1997) |
| 1998 | X-ray / Gamma-Ray | First Accreting Millisecond Pulsar (AMXP) Reference: Wijnands & van der Klis (1998) |
| 1998, 2000 | Radio Emission Mechanism | Spectrum of radio emission / Spectral indices |
| 1998, 1999, 2015 | Radio Emission Mechanism | The Characteristics of Millisecond Pulsar Emission X - On the Precursor and Postcursor Emission XI - Understanding the Orientations of Pulsar Radiation and Supernova "Kicks" I - Spectra, Pulse Shapes, and the Beaming Fraction II - Polarimetry III - From Low to High Frequencies |
| 1998 | Planetary Ephemerides | DE405 Solar System Ephemeris Reference: Standish (1998) |
| 1999 | Formation | Formation of Pulsars - He-WD systems Reference: Tauris & Savonije (1999) |
| 2000 | Polarization | Polarimetric Invariant Profile Reference: Britton (2000) |
| 2000, 2011, 2012 | Formation | Formation of Pulsars - CO-WD systems |
| 2000 | Receivers & Backends | Princeton Mark IV Arecibo Backend Reference: Stairs et al. (2000) |
| 2000 | Receivers & Backends | WAPP Arecibo Backend Reference: Dowd et al. (2000) |
| 2001 | Timing | Binary Model ELL1 Simple Keplerian model suitable for very low eccentricities Reference: Lange et al. (2001) |
| 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006 | Surveys | PMPS The Parkes Multibeam Pulsar Survey |
| 2001, 2006 | Records | Extra-Galactic Pulsars Pulsars discovered in the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds |
| 2001 | Software | PRESTO Pulsar searching package; described in Scott Ransom's PhD thesis. |
| 2001 | Software | SIGPROC Time-domain pulsar searching package. |
| 2002, 2003 | Search | Phase-modulation binary Searching Sideband searching and 10% rule in the constant acceleration approximation |
| 2002 | ISM & Galaxy | NE2001 Electron Density model of the Milky Way |
| 2002 | Radio Emission Mechanism | Structure of pulsar beams: Conal versus patchy Reference: Kijak & Gil (2002) |
| 2002 | Receivers & Backends | PuMa-I Westerbork Backend Reference: Voûte et al. (2002) |
| 2003 | Surveys | A430IGS Arecibo 430 MHz Intermediate Galactic Latitude Survey Reference: Navarro et al. (2003) |
| 2003 | Formation | Supernova Explosion How NS form Reference: Heger et al. (2003) |
| 2003 | High Energy Emission Mechanism | Relativistic slot gap model This slot gap model includes general-relativistic frame dragging, which strengthens the accelerating electric fields at high altitudes. Reference: Muslimov & Harding (2003) |
| 2003 | High Energy Emission Mechanism | Two-pole caustic model The TPC model treats high-energy emission as originating from thin ribbons along the last open magnetic field lines, extending from the neutron-star surface to the light cylinder at both magnetic poles. Reference: Dyks & Rudak (2003) |
| 2003, 2004, 2006 | Records | Double Pulsar PSR J0737-3039A/B, discovered in 2003, consists of a 22.7 ms pulsar in orbit around a 2.77 s pulsar. It is the first double neutron-star binary in which both components have been observed as radio pulsars, and it provides a unique laboratory for testing general relativity. |
| 2003, 2007 | Receivers & Backends | CPSR2 Parkes Backend |
| 2004 | Polarization | Measurement Equation Modeling (MEM) Calibration method based on multiple observations of a reference pulsar taken at many HA's Reference: van Straten (2004) |
| 2004 | ISM & Galaxy | Scattering Timescale Empirical relation between DM and scattering timescale, as a function of frequency Reference: Bhat et al. (2004) |
| 2004 | High Energy Emission Mechanism | Annular gap model The annular gap and inner annular gap models place acceleration in an annular region between the open field lines and the null charge surface, allowing geometries that can explain complex multi-peaked gamma-ray light curves. Reference: Qiao et al. (2004) |
| 2004, 2009 | High Energy Emission Mechanism | Pair-starved polar cap model The PSPC model applies to older or lower-energy pulsars where particles can be accelerated, but the magnetic field is too weak to trigger a screening cascade of electron-positron pairs, leaving the open volume starved and accelerating. |
| 2004 | Receivers & Backends | PSRFITS formats Flexible Image Transport System for Pulsar Observations Reference: Hotan et al. (2004) |
| 2004, 2012 | Software | PSRCHIVE Pulsar archive data reduction and analysis package. |
| 2005, 2008, 2013 | Globular Clusters | Reviews on Pulsars in GC Pulsars in Globular Clusters Twenty Years of Searching for (and Finding) Globular Cluster Pulsars The pulsar population in Globular Clusters and in the Galaxy |
| 2005 | Receivers & Backends | Spigot GBT Backend Reference: Kaplan et al. (2005) |
| 2005 | Databases & Data Releases | ATNF Pulsar Catalogue / PSRCAT Positions, spin parameters, binary parameters, distances, and bibliographic references for published pulsars. |
| 2006 | Polarization | Matrix Template Matching (MTM) Technique that uses the full polarimetric information to extract TOAs. Can also be used to calibrate data. Reference: van Straten (2006) |
| 2006, 2013, 2018, 2019 | Surveys | HTRU-N The High Time Resolution Survey - North |
| 2006, 2009, 2014, 2015 | Surveys | PALFA Arecibo Pulsar Survey Using ALFA |
| 2006, 2010, 2011, 2015 | Surveys | PH The Parkes High Latitude Pulsar Survey |
| 2006 | Gravity Tests | Most stringent test of GR Test with the Double Pulsar Reference: Kramer et al. (2006) |
| 2006 | Records | Fastest Pulsar Known Eclipsing binary pulsar PSR J1748-2446ad in Terzan 5 (spin frequency of 716 Hz) Reference: Hessels et al. (2006) |
| 2006 | Records | First Magnetar Visible in Radio Discovered Reference: Camilo et al. (2006) |
| 2006 | Records | First Rotating Radio Transient Reference: McLaughlin et al. (2006) |
| 2006 | Databases & Data Releases | Jodrell Bank Pulsar Glitch Catalogue Measured glitches, epochs, and changes in spin frequency and spin-down rate. Reference: Espinoza et al. (2011) |
| 2006, 2007 | Surveys | Single-pulse phenomenology survey Pioneering survey and research on single-pulse phenomenology, including drifting, nulling and modulation behaviour in radio pulsars. Reference: Weltevrede et al. (2006/2007) |
| 2007, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 | Timing | DM variations |
| 2007, 2011, 2016 | Radio Emission Mechanism | GHz spectral turnovers in pulsars |
| 2007 | Receivers & Backends | GASP / ASP GBT / Arecibo Astronomical Signal Processor Reference: Demorest (2007) |
| 2007 | Software | PSRSALSA Suite of algorithms for statistical analysis, polarimetry, single pulses, and fluctuation spectra. |
| 2008 | Receivers & Backends | GUPPI / PUPPI GBT / Arecibo Ultimate Pulsar Processing Instrument Reference: DuPlain et al. (2008) |
| 2008 | Receivers & Backends | PuMa-II Westerbork Backend Reference: Karuppusamy et al. (2008) |
| 2009 | X-ray / Gamma-Ray | LAT Fermi Large Area Telescope instrument Reference: Atwood et al. (2009) |
| 2009, 2011 | Telescopes | FAST Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope located in China |
| 2009 | Software | TEMPO_NEST Bayesian pulsar timing and stochastic-noise analysis using TEMPO2 and MultiNest. Reference: Lentati et al. (2014) |
| 2009 | Databases & Data Releases | RRATalog Published rotating radio transients and measured source properties. Reference: McLaughlin et al.; WVU pulsar group |
| 2009 | Planetary Ephemerides | DE421 Solar System Ephemeris Reference: Folkner et al. (2009) |
| 2010, 2013 | Search | Detectability of eccentric binaries |
| 2010 | Polarization | IAU/IEEE - PSR/IEEE comparison Reference: van Straten et al. (2010) |
| 2010 | X-ray / Gamma-Ray | 1FGL 1st Fermi Large Area Telescope Source Catalog Reference: Abdo et al. (2010) |
| 2010 | High Energy Emission Mechanism | Separatrix layer model The separatrix layer model uses force-free magnetospheres from simulations and restricts caustic emission to the layer near the current sheet along the boundary between closed and open field lines. Reference: Bai & Spitkovsky (2010) |
| 2010 | Telescopes | LWA Long Wavelength Array located in New Mexico, USA Reference: Kassim et al. (2010) |
| 2010 | Telescopes | MWA Murchison Widefield Array located in South Murchison, Australia Reference: Mitchell et al. (2010) |
| 2010, 2015 | Telescopes | SKA Square Kilometre Array located in South Africa and Australia |
| 2010 | Receivers & Backends | FITS formats Flexible Image Transport System Reference: Pence et al. (2010) |
| 2011 | High Energy Emission Mechanism | Striped wind current sheet model The striped wind current sheet model places caustic emission beyond the light cylinder, in the thin undulating current sheet embedded in the relativistic wind outside the magnetosphere. Reference: Petri (2011) |
| 2011 | Records | First γ-ray pulsar in a GC Pulsar PSR J1823-3021A in NGC 6624 Reference: Freire et al. (2011) |
| 2011, 2013 | Telescopes | LOFAR Low Frequency Array with antenna stations in the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, France, Ireland, Latvia, Sweden and the United Kingdom. |
| 2011 | Software | DSPSR Folding and dedispersion package for pulsar data. |
| 2011 | Databases & Data Releases | Fermi LAT Pulsar Catalogue Gamma-ray pulsars, timing solutions, and spectral properties. Reference: Abdo et al.; 2PC and 3PC releases |
| 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 | Surveys | HTRU-S The High Time Resolution Survey - South |
| 2012 | X-ray / Gamma-Ray | 2FGL 2nd Fermi Large Area Telescope Source Catalog Reference: Nolan et al. (2012) |
| 2012 | X-ray / Gamma-Ray | Chandra Pulsar Survey Reference: Kargaltsev et al. (2012) |
| 2012 | Telescopes | MeerKAT Array of sixty-four 13.5-m dishes located in South Africa Size: 64 x 13.5 m Country: South Africa Visibility: -90, +40 deg Receivers: UHF (580 - 1015 MHz) Pulsar Backends: ---- |
| 2012 | Software | LIBSTEMPO Python interface to the TEMPO2 timing engine. |
| 2013, 2014, 2016 | Search | AI and Machine Learning Candidate selection |
| 2013 | Polarization | ionFR Code for modelling the ionospheric contribution to the Rotation Measure Reference: Sotomayor-Beltran et al. (2013) |
| 2013 | Polarization | Measurement Equation Template Matching (METM) Calibration method based on a single observation of a reference pulsar Reference: van Straten (2013) |
| 2013, 2016 | Surveys | A0327 Arecibo All-sky 327 MHz Drift Pulsar Survey |
| 2013 | Surveys | GBT350 The Green Bank Telescope 350 MHz Drift-scan survey |
| 2013 | Surveys | PASURV The Perseus Arm Pulsar Survey Reference: Burgay et al. (2013) |
| 2013 | Timing | EPTA The European Pulsar Timing Array and the Large European Array for Pulsars Reference: Kramer & Champion (2013) |
| 2013 | Timing | IPTA The International Pulsar Timing Array Reference: Manchester (2013) |
| 2013 | Timing | NANOgrav The North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves Reference: McLaughlin (2013) |
| 2013 | Timing | PPTA The Parkes Pulsar Timing Array Reference: Hobbs (2013) |
| 2013 | Timing | PPTA Data Release 1 (DR1) Reference: Manchester et al. (2013) |
| 2013, 2015 | Formation | Ultra-stripped Type Ic Supernovae |
| 2013 | Records | Most Massive Pulsar Known PSR J0348+0432 Reference: Antoniadis et al. (2013) |
| 2013 | Software | PEACE Automated ranking of pulsar-search candidates using heuristic candidate features. Reference: Lee et al. (2013) |
| 2013 | Databases & Data Releases | NANOGrav 5-year Data Set Public TOAs and timing models in TEMPO and TEMPO2 formats. |
| 2014, 2018 | Surveys | GBNCC The Green Bank Northern Celestial Cap Pulsar Survey |
| 2014 | Surveys | LPPS The LOFAR pilot surveys for pulsars and fast radio transients Reference: I - Coenen et al. (2014) |
| 2014 | Gravity Tests | Pulsar-Black hole binaries Reference: Liu et al. (2014) |
| 2014 | Formation | Formation of eccentric pulsar-WD binaries Via rotationally-delayed accretion-induced collapse (RDAIC) Via the interaction of the binary with a circumstellar disk |
| 2014 | Software | PAL2 Bayesian pulsar-timing-array analysis and gravitational-wave inference. |
| 2014 | Software | PICCARD Bayesian PTA timing and gravitational-wave analysis. Reference: van Haasteren et al. |
| 2014 | Software | PSRPOPPy Open-source Python package for pulsar population synthesis. |
| 2014 | Databases & Data Releases | HEASARC Pulsar Tables X-ray and gamma-ray pulsar catalogues, survey tables, and mission products. Reference: NASA HEASARC |
| 2014 | Planetary Ephemerides | DE430 Solar System Ephemeris Reference: Folkner et al. (2014) |
| 2014 | Planetary Ephemerides | Structure and Kinematics of the Milky Way Reference: Reid et al. (2014) |
| 2015 | Timing | FD Model Frequency-Dependent Profile Evolution Reference: Arzoumanian et al. (2015) |
| 2015 | X-ray / Gamma-Ray | 3FGL 3rd Fermi Large Area Telescope Source Catalog Reference: Acero et al. (2015) |
| 2015 | Records | Highest Frequency Detection of a Radio Pulsar Magnetar SGR J1745-2900 detected at 225 GHz Reference: Torne et al. (2015) |
| 2015 | Records | Least Massive Neutron Star known 1.174 +/- 0.004 M$_\odot$ in the companion of PSR J0453+1559 Reference: Martinez et al. (2015) |
| 2015 | Records | Most eccentric binary pulsar known Reference: Martinez et al. (2015) |
| 2015 | Telescopes | SRT 64-m single-dish telescope located in Sardinia, Italy Size: 64 m Country: Italy Visibility: -40, +90 deg Receivers: L-P (coaxial, 305-410 MHz and 1.3-1.8 GHz) Pulsar Backends: DFB3 |
| 2015 | Receivers & Backends | UWL Ultra-Wideband Low-frequency at Parkes Reference: Manchester (2015) |
| 2015 | Receivers & Backends | ARTEMIS LOFAR Software Backend Reference: Karastergiou et al. (2015) |
| 2015 | Software | PICS Image-based machine-learning classification of pulsar candidates. Reference: Zhu et al. (2014/2015) |
| 2015 | Software | PulsePortraiture Frequency-dependent pulse-profile modelling and wideband TOA and DM estimation. |
| 2015 | Databases & Data Releases | LOFAR HBA Pulsar Census Calibrated low-frequency profiles, dispersion measures, flux densities, and spectra for non-recycled pulsars. Reference: Bilous et al. (2016) |
| 2016 | Timing | Binary Model DDFWHE Reference: Weisberg & Huang (2016) |
| 2016 | Surveys | GHRSS The GMRT High Resolution Southern Sky Survey for Pulsars and Transients Reference: I - Bhattacharyya et al. (2016) |
| 2016, 2023 | Surveys | Multiwavelength Single Pulse Polarimetric Survey (MSPES) Multiwavelength Single Pulse Polarimetric Survey with GMRT. Reference: Mitra et al. (2016/2023) |
| 2016 | Timing | EPTA Data Release 1 (DR1) Reference: Desvignes et al. (2016) |
| 2016 | Timing | IPTA Data Release 1 (DR1) Reference: Verbiest et al. (2016) |
| 2016 | Timing | LEAP The Large European Array for Pulsars Reference: Bassa et al. (2016) |
| 2016 | ISM & Galaxy | YMW16 New Electron Density model of the Milky Way, refinement of NE2001 Reference: Yao et al. (2016) |
| 2016 | Receivers & Backends | Coherent dedispersion at GMRT Pipeline used at the GMRT to do coherent dedispersion in real time Reference: De & Gupta (2016) |
| 2016 | Receivers & Backends | PSRIX Effelsberg Backend Reference: Lazarus et al. (2016) |
| 2016, 2018 | Software | COBRA Bayesian coherent multi-epoch pulsar searching package. |
| 2016 | Software | PYSLALIB Python bindings for the SLALIB positional-astronomy library, used by pulsar tools. Reference: PYSLALIB repository |
| 2016 | Software | TOASTER Pulsar-search candidate management, inspection, and pipeline database system. Reference: Swinburne pulsar group |
| 2016 | Databases & Data Releases | LOFAR MSP Census Flux-calibrated profiles and measurements for millisecond pulsars at 110-188 MHz. Reference: Kondratiev et al. (2016) |
| 2017, 2018 | Surveys | SUPERB The SUrvey for Pulsars and Extragalactic Radio Bursts |
| 2017 | ISM & Galaxy | Milky Way gravitational potential Reference: McMillan (2017) |
| 2017 | Formation | Formation of double neutron star systems Reference: Tauris et al. (2017) |
| 2017 | Records | Pulsar with highest NS birth mass PSR J2222-0137 Reference: Cognard et al. (2017) |
| 2017 | Telescopes | CHIME Reference: Ng (2017) |
| 2017 | Receivers & Backends | A Wideband Digital Back-End uGMRT Backend Reference: Reddy et al. (2017) |
| 2017 | Receivers & Backends | HIPSR Parkes Backend Reference: Price et al. (2017) |
| 2017 | Software | FFANCY Fast Folding Algorithm pulsar searching package |
| 2017 | Software | HEIMDALL GPU-accelerated dedispersion and single-pulse/transient search pipeline. |
| 2017 | Software | PYPULSE Pure-Python PSRFITS reading, pulsar profile analysis, scintillation, and timing tools. |
| 2018 | Search | GPU FDAS GPU-accelerated Fourier Domain Acceleration Search Reference: Dimoudi et al. (2018) |
| 2018 | Records | Slowest Pulsar Known Isolated pulsar PSR J0250+5854 (spin period of 23.535 s) Reference: Tan et al. (2018) |
| 2018 | Receivers & Backends | SARDARA SRT Backend Reference: Melis et al. (2018) |
| 2018 | Software | ENTERPRISE Bayesian pulsar timing, noise analysis, and nanohertz gravitational-wave inference. Reference: Ellis et al. (2019) |
| 2018 | Software | ENTERPRISE_EXTENSIONS Higher-level PTA models, frequentist statistics, and wrappers around ENTERPRISE. |
| 2018 | Software | ffaGo Fast Folding Algorithm pulsar searching package |
| 2018 | Software | PSRQPY Python interface for downloading, querying, and manipulating the ATNF Pulsar Catalogue. |
| 2018 | Software | PTMCMC_SAMPLER MPI-enabled parallel-tempering Markov-chain Monte Carlo sampler widely used by ENTERPRISE. Reference: PTMCMCSampler repository |
| 2018 | Software | CLFD Versatile RFI mitigation tool by V. Morello. |
| 2018 | Databases & Data Releases | FRBCAT FRB detections, observed properties, and discovery metadata; relevant to pulsar and single-pulse pipelines. Reference: Petroff et al. (2016) |
| 2019 | Surveys | LOTAAS The LOFAR Tied-Array All-Sky Survey Reference: I - Sanidas et al. (2019) |
| 2019 | Telescopes | NenuFAR Country: France Visibility: -10, +90 deg Receivers: 10-85 MHz Pulsar Backends: LUPPI Reference: Bondonneau et al. (2020) |
| 2019 | Software | HASASIA PTA sensitivity-curve calculation and forecasting. Reference: Hazboun et al. (2019) |
| 2019 | Databases & Data Releases | IPTA Data Release 2 Timing data and noise models for 65 millisecond pulsars. Reference: Perera et al. (2019) |
| 2020 | Records | Ultra-long-period pulsar PSR J0901-4046 PSR J0901-4046 has a 75.9 s rotation period, challenging existing expectations for neutron-star evolution and radio pulsar activity. Reference: Caleb et al. (2022) |
| 2020 | Software | BAYESHOPPER Trans-dimensional Bayesian searches for continuous gravitational waves in PTA data. Reference: Becsy & Cornish (2020) |
| 2020 | Software | BAYESHOPPERBURST Bayesian search for gravitational-wave bursts and burst-with-memory signals in PTA data. Reference: Becsy & Cornish |
| 2020 | Software | CEFFYL Rapid refitting and combination of PTA free-spectrum likelihoods. |
| 2020 | Software | FETCH Neural-network classification of dispersed fast-radio-burst and single-pulse candidates. Reference: Agarwal et al. (2020) |
| 2020 | Software | RIPTIDE Fast Folding Algorithm pulsar searching package |
| 2020 | Databases & Data Releases | Nancay/LOFAR LBA Pulsar Census Profiles, flux densities, and dispersion measures at approximately 25-80 MHz. Reference: Bondonneau et al. (2020) |
| 2021 | Software | gptool uGMRT RFI filtering, bandshape correction, and data-quality analysis. Reference: InPTA/uGMRT software |
| 2021 | Software | PINT Modern pure-Python pulsar timing package; PINT is not TEMPO3. |
| 2021 | Software | PINTA InPTA/uGMRT data-reduction pipeline for RFI excision, dedispersion, and folding into PSRFITS. |
| 2021 | Software | RFICLEAN Fourier-domain periodic RFI detection and excision, used by PINTA. Reference: Maan et al. (2021) |
| 2021 | Databases & Data Releases | MeerTime Thousand Pulsar Array Census MeerKAT integrated profiles, polarimetry, rotation measures, and population measurements. |
| 2022 | Software | CANDIDATE_FILTERS Candidate post-processing and machine-learning utilities used in modern surveys. Reference: Survey-specific repositories |
| 2022 | Databases & Data Releases | InPTA Data Release 1 uGMRT timing data, TOAs, and timing models for InPTA millisecond pulsars. Reference: Tarafdar et al. (2022) |
| 2022 | Databases & Data Releases | MeerTime MSP Census PSRFITS integrated profiles for MeerKAT-observed millisecond pulsars. |
| 2023 | Software | PULSARX High-performance GPU pulsar searching, acceleration searching, and folding. Reference: Men et al. (2023) |
| 2023 | Software | VELA.jl Bayesian pulsar timing and noise modelling written in Julia. Reference: Susobhanan and collaborators |
| 2023 | Databases & Data Releases | CPTA Data Release 1 FAST timing data for the Chinese Pulsar Timing Array. Reference: Xu et al. (2023) |
| 2023 | Databases & Data Releases | EPTA Data Release 2 Up to 24.7 years of European PTA timing data, including combinations with InPTA DR1. Reference: EPTA Collaboration (2023) |
| 2023 | Databases & Data Releases | MeerKAT PTA Data Release 1 First 2.5 years of timing data for the MeerKAT Pulsar Timing Array. Reference: Miles et al. (2023) |
| 2023 | Databases & Data Releases | NANOGrav 15-year Data Set Narrowband and wideband TOAs, timing models, noise files, and reproducibility software for 68 MSPs. Reference: Agazie et al. (2023) |
| 2023 | Databases & Data Releases | MSPES database Database of the Multiwavelength Single Pulse Polarimetric Survey. Reference: MSPES database |
| 2023 | Databases & Data Releases | PPTA Data Release 3 Parkes timing data and noise models for millisecond pulsars. Reference: Reardon et al. (2023) |
| 2024 | Software | LA_FOG Likelihood approximation and PTA gravitational-wave analysis utilities. Reference: PTA software ecosystem |
| 2024 | Software | PTARCADE ENTERPRISE-based framework for new-physics searches using PTA likelihoods. Reference: Mitridate et al. |
| 2025 | Software | FASTFOLD GPU-oriented folding and candidate-analysis tools for large pulsar surveys. Reference: Project repository |
| 2026 | Databases & Data Releases | MeerTime Single-Pulse Data Set Search-mode single-pulse observations of 1,192 pulsars, typically containing roughly 1,000 consecutive pulses per source. Reference: Keith et al. (2026) |
| ? | Software | BINARY_GAZER A program for planning observations of specific orbital phases of binary pulsars |
| ? | Software | COAST_GUARD Pulsar archive data reduction package Reference: COAST_GUARD source code |
| ? | Software | DRACULA Automatic timing solution finder Reference: DRACULA source code |
| ? | Software | PEASOUP C++/CUDA GPU pulsar searching library Reference: PEASOUP source code |
| ? | Software | PRESTO_ON_GPU Pulsar searching package - GPU accelerated Reference: PRESTO_ON_GPU source code |
| ? | Software | PSRALEX Pulsar archive data reduction package |
| ? | Software | PSRFITS_UTILS Folding, dedispersion, subbanding, merging of PSRFITS files Reference: PSRFITS_UTILS source code |
| ? | Software | PSRPOP Pulsar population synthesis Reference: PSRPOP project page |
| ? | Software | PYRISESET A program for computing rise/set times of pulsars Reference: PYRISESET source code |
| ? | Software | PYSOLATOR Orbital motion remover |
| ? | Software | SIGPYPROC Python-based pulsar search data manipulation package Reference: SIGPYPROC source code |
| ? | Software | SPIDER_TWISTER Orbital phase search |
| Ongoing | Databases & Data Releases | CSIRO Australia Telescope Online Archive Raw and processed Parkes, ASKAP, and ATCA observations after applicable proprietary periods. Reference: CSIRO Data Access Portal |
| Ongoing | Databases & Data Releases | FAST Data Centre Public FAST pulsar survey and timing products released by individual projects. |
| Ongoing | Databases & Data Releases | MeerTime Public Data Portal Folded profiles for 1,271 pulsars, MSP census products, and public MeerTime releases. Reference: MeerTime data portal |
| Ongoing | Databases & Data Releases | Zenodo Pulsar Data Collections Versioned profile, timing, single-pulse, and survey datasets associated with publications. Reference: Zenodo |
| 2005 (2005) | Books | Handbook of Pulsar Astronomy Authors: D. R. Lorimer and Michael Kramer Reference: Cambridge University Press |
| 2012 (1990) | Books | Pulsar Astronomy Authors: Andrew Lyne and Francis Graham-Smith Reference: Cambridge University Press |
| 2016 (2016) | Books | Essential Radio Astronomy Authors: James J. Condon and Scott M. Ransom Reference: Princeton University Press |
| 2009 (2008) | Books | Clocks in the Sky: The Story of Pulsars Authors: Geoff McNamara Reference: Springer |
| 2009 (1986) | Books | Tools of Radio Astronomy Authors: Thomas L. Wilson, Kristen Rohlfs, and Susanne Hüttemeister Reference: Springer |
| 2009 (1993) | Books | Physics of the Pulsar Magnetosphere Authors: A. V. Gurevich, V. S. Beskin, and Ya. N. Istomin Reference: Cambridge University Press |
| 1985 (1985) | Books | Radiative Processes in Astrophysics Authors: George B. Rybicki and Alan P. Lightman Reference: Wiley Online Library |
| 1983 (1983) | Books | Black Holes, White Dwarfs, and Neutron Stars: The Physics of Compact Objects Authors: Stuart L. Shapiro and Saul A. Teukolsky Reference: Wiley Online Library |
| 1997 (1997) | Books | Compact Stars: Nuclear Physics, Particle Physics and General Relativity Authors: Norman K. Glendenning Reference: Springer |
| 2007 (2007) | Books | Neutron Stars 1: Equation of State and Structure Authors: P. Haensel, A. Y. Potekhin, and D. G. Yakovlev Reference: Springer |
| 2019 (2019) | Books | The Physics and Astrophysics of Neutron Stars Authors: Luciano Rezzolla, Pierre Pizzochero, David Ian Jones, Nanda Rea, and Isaac Vidaña Reference: Springer |
| 1971 | Radio Emission Mechanism | A Model of Pulsars Radio emission theory; pair plasma and pulsar magnetosphere model. Reference: Sturrock (1971) |
| 1977 | ISM & Galaxy | Interstellar scattering and scintillation Classic synthesis of radio-wave propagation through the turbulent ionized interstellar medium. Reference: Rickett (1977) |
| 1981 | ISM & Galaxy | Density power spectrum in the local interstellar medium ISM turbulence; electron-density fluctuation spectrum. Reference: Armstrong et al. (1981) |
| 1982 | Radio Emission Mechanism | Electromagnetic cascades in pulsars Pair cascades above polar caps; important for magnetospheric plasma production. Reference: Daugherty & Harding (1982) |
| 1987 | ISM & Galaxy | Radio caustics from localized interstellar medium plasma structures ISM plasma lensing; refractive caustics. Reference: Romani et al. (1987) |
| 1990 | ISM & Galaxy | Radio propagation through the turbulent interstellar plasma Major review of scintillation, scattering, angular broadening and pulse broadening. Reference: Rickett (1990) |
| 1991 | ISM & Galaxy | The galactic distribution of free electrons Early Galactic free-electron model used for pulsar distances. Reference: Taylor & Cordes (1991) |
| 1993 | ISM & Galaxy | Pulsar distances and the Galactic distribution of free electrons Taylor-Cordes electron-density model; standard before NE2001. Reference: Taylor & Cordes (1993) |
| 1995 | ISM & Galaxy | Electron density power spectrum in the local interstellar medium Evidence for a broad, approximately Kolmogorov spectrum of electron-density fluctuations. Reference: Armstrong et al. (1995) |
| 2000 | Radio Emission Mechanism | The Spark-associated Soliton Model for Pulsar Radio Emission Coherent curvature radiation by solitons in pulsar plasma. Reference: Melikidze et al. (2000) |
| 2001 | ISM & Galaxy | Faint scattering around pulsars Secondary-spectrum arcs as probes of scattering geometry and AU-scale interstellar structure. Reference: Stinebring et al. (2001) |
| 2003 | ISM & Galaxy | Scintillations and Levy Flights through the Interstellar Medium Non-Gaussian scattering statistics for ISM propagation. Reference: Boldyrev & Gwinn (2003) |
| 2004 | Radio Emission Mechanism | Curvature Radiation in Pulsar Magnetospheric Plasma Coherent curvature radiation in pair plasma. Reference: Gil et al. (2004) |
| 2007 | ISM & Galaxy | Using pulsar scintillation to probe AU-size structure in the interstellar medium Scintillation arcs and AU-scale ISM structure. Reference: Stinebring (2007) |
| 2010 | Polarization | Polarization changes of pulsars due to wave propagation through magnetospheres Magnetospheric propagation effects on observed pulsar polarization. Reference: Wang et al. (2010) |
| 2016 | ISM & Galaxy | Real-time detection of an extreme scattering event Constraints on Galactic plasma lenses from an extreme scattering event. Reference: Bannister et al. (2016) |
| 2018 | Radio Emission Mechanism | Relativistic charge solitons from non-linear Landau damping Candidate explanation for coherent radio emission in pulsars. Reference: Rahaman et al. (2018) |
| 2020 | Radio Emission Mechanism | Pulsar radio emission mechanisms: a critique Critical review of coherent curvature, plasma and anomalous Doppler emission models. Reference: Melrose et al. (2020) |
| 2021 | Radio Emission Mechanism | Radio Emission by Soliton Formation in Hot Streaming Pair Pulsar Plasmas Soliton formation in hot streaming pair pulsar plasmas. Reference: Lakoba et al. (2021) |
| 2021 | ISM & Galaxy | Morphology of solar system scale plasma lenses in the interstellar medium Tests plasma-lens morphology using pulsar scintillation parabolic arcs. Reference: Simard & Pen (2021) |
| 2023 | ISM & Galaxy | The Galactic distribution of pulsar scattering and the tau-DM relation Galactic scattering distribution and the pulse-broadening versus DM relation. Reference: Ocker et al. (2023) |
| 2024 | ISM & Galaxy | Scattering model of scintillation arcs in pulsar secondary spectra Physical model of scintillation arcs. Reference: Baker et al. (2024) |
| 2024 | ISM & Galaxy | Galactic Electron Density Structure from Pulsar Sightlines Intersecting H II Regions H II regions and anomalous pulsar DMs/scattering. Reference: Ocker et al. (2024) |
| 2025 | Radio Emission Mechanism | Pulsar radio emission mechanism II Charged solitons and coherent curvature radiation. Reference: Rahaman et al. (2025) |
| 1969 | X-ray / Gamma-Ray | Discovery of Optical Signals from Pulsar NP 0532 First optical pulsations from a pulsar; pulsars are multiwavelength emitters. Reference: Cocke et al. (1969) |
| 1981 | X-ray / Gamma-Ray | An X-ray pulsar in SNR G109.1-1.0 X-ray pulsar associated with supernova remnant G109.1-1.0. Reference: Fahlman & Gregory (1981) |
| 2002 | X-ray / Gamma-Ray | Magnetar-like X-ray bursts from an anomalous X-ray pulsar Evidence linking anomalous X-ray pulsars with soft gamma repeaters. Reference: Gavriil et al. (2002) |
| 2009 | X-ray / Gamma-Ray | A radio pulsar/X-ray binary link Observational link between a radio millisecond pulsar and an X-ray binary state. Reference: Archibald et al. (2009) |
| 2009 | X-ray / Gamma-Ray | Detection of 16 Gamma-Ray Pulsars Through Blind Frequency Searches Using the Fermi LAT Blind gamma-ray periodicity searches discovered pulsars without prior radio timing. Reference: Abdo et al. (2009) |
| 2009 | X-ray / Gamma-Ray | A Population of Gamma-Ray Millisecond Pulsars Seen with the Fermi Large Area Telescope Established recycled millisecond pulsars as a substantial gamma-ray source population. Reference: Abdo et al. (2009) |
| 2015 | Databases & Data Releases | The NANOGrav Nine-year Data Set Observations, arrival-time measurements and analysis of 37 millisecond pulsars. Reference: Arzoumanian et al. (2015) |
| 2016 | X-ray / Gamma-Ray | Magnetar-like activity from PSR J1119-6127 A high-magnetic-field radio pulsar produced magnetar-like bursts and an outburst. Reference: Archibald et al. (2016) |
| 2016 | X-ray / Gamma-Ray | Magnetar-like X-ray Bursts from a Rotation-powered Pulsar, PSR J1119-6127 Rotation-powered pulsar PSR J1119-6127 showed magnetar-like X-ray bursts. Reference: Gogus et al. (2016) |
| 2017 | X-ray / Gamma-Ray | Optical pulsations from a transitional millisecond pulsar Optical pulsations from a transitional millisecond pulsar. Reference: Ambrosino et al. (2017) |
| 2018 | Databases & Data Releases | The NANOGrav 11-year Data Set High-precision timing of 45 millisecond pulsars. Reference: Arzoumanian et al. (2018) |
| 2021 | Planetary Ephemerides | The JPL Planetary and Lunar Ephemerides DE440 and DE441 Updated JPL planetary and lunar ephemerides. Reference: Park et al. (2021) |
| 2021 | Databases & Data Releases | The NANOGrav 12.5 yr Data Set: Observations and Narrowband Timing Narrowband timing data for 47 millisecond pulsars. Reference: Alam et al. (2021a) |
| 2021 | Databases & Data Releases | The NANOGrav 12.5 yr Data Set: Wideband Timing Wideband timing data for 47 millisecond pulsars. Reference: Alam et al. (2021b) |
| 2021 | Databases & Data Releases | The Parkes Pulsar Timing Array second data release: timing analysis Timing analysis for the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array second data release. Reference: Kerr et al. (2021) |
| 2024 | Records | A pulsar in a binary with a probable mass-gap companion Compact companion with inferred mass between typical neutron-star and black-hole masses. Reference: Barr et al. (2024) |
| 2013 | Records | PSR J0738-4042 spin-down and profile change Long-term change in spin-down and pulse profile, plausibly interpreted as interaction with infalling asteroid material. Reference: PSR J0738-4042 studies |
| 2004 | Records | First double-pulsar system PSR J0737-3039A/B is the first and still uniquely established double-pulsar system with both neutron stars detected as radio pulsars. Reference: Burgay et al. (2004) |
| 2014 | Records | First pulsar in a stellar triple system PSR J0337+1715 is a millisecond pulsar orbited by two white-dwarf companions. Reference: Ransom et al. (2014) |
| 2016 | Records | First recognized white-dwarf pulsar AR Scorpii has a white-dwarf spin period of about 117 seconds and a dominant beat period of about 118 seconds. Reference: Marsh et al. (2016) |
| 2011 | Records | PSR J1841-0500 long-term intermittency Intermittent pulsar that ceased detectable radio emission for about 580 days before reappearing. Reference: Camilo et al. (2012) |
| 2006 | Records | Prototype intermittent pulsar PSR B1931+24 is typically detectable for roughly 5 to 10 days and undetectable for roughly 25 to 35 days. Reference: Kramer et al. (2006) |
| 2008 | Records | PSR J1903+0327 eccentric millisecond-pulsar binary Approximately 2.15 ms pulsar in a highly eccentric 95-day binary orbit with a roughly solar-mass main-sequence companion. Reference: Champion et al. (2008) |
| 2010 | Records | First Einstein@Home pulsar discovery PSR J2007+2722 was discovered through Einstein@Home volunteer distributed computing. Reference: Knispel et al. (2010) |
| 2012 | Records | First millisecond pulsar from a blind gamma-ray search PSR J1311-3430 is a black-widow binary found through a blind gamma-ray pulsation search. Reference: Pletsch et al. (2012) |
| 2020 | Software | ugmrt2fil Converts uGMRT raw data files to SIGPROC filterbank format. Reference: ugmrt2fil source code |
| 2020 | Software | DMCalc Python script that estimates the dispersion measure of wide-band pulsar data in PSRFITS format. |
| 2020 | High Energy Emission Mechanism | SGR 1935+2154 radio bursts across seven orders of magnitude Follow-up detections showed that a Galactic magnetar can emit radio bursts ranging from weak events to FRB-like energies, strongly supporting the magnetar-FRB connection. Reference: Kirsten et al. (2020) |
| 2023 | High Energy Emission Mechanism | Vela Pulsar emission reaching 20 TeV H.E.S.S. detected a new pulsed gamma-ray component extending to at least 20 TeV, demonstrating extreme particle acceleration and challenging standard high-energy pulsar emission models. Reference: H.E.S.S. Collaboration (2023) |
| 2023 | High Energy Emission Mechanism | Global kinetic simulation of pulsar electric gaps and radio-wave excitation First-principles plasma simulations produced self-consistent electric gaps, electron-positron discharges and escaping electromagnetic modes with properties relevant to pulsar radio emission. Reference: Bransgrove, Beloborodov and Levin (2023) |
| 2024 | High Energy Emission Mechanism | Detailed Crab Pulsar very-high-energy emission with LST-1 LST-1 characterized the pulse peaks, bridge emission and phase-resolved spectrum from roughly 20 GeV to several hundred GeV, refining constraints on pulsar high-energy emission models. Reference: CTA-LST Project (2024) |