Evidence for profile changes in PSR J1713+0747 using the uGMRT
Jaikhomba Singha, Mayuresh Surnis, B. C. Joshi, Pratik Tarafdar, Prerna Rana, Abhimanyu Susobhanan, Raghav Girgaonkar, Neel Kolhe, Nikita Agarwal, S. Desai, T. Prabu, Adarsh Bathula, Subhajit Dandapat, Lankeswar Dey, Shinnosuke Hisano, Ryo Kato, D. Kharbanda, Tomonosuke Kikunaga, Piyush Marmat, S. C. Susarla, Manjari Bagchi, Neelam Dhanda Batra, Arpita Roy Choudhury, A. Gopakumar, Yashwant Gupta, M. A. Krishnakumar, Yogesh Maan, P. K. Manoharan, K. Nobleson, Arul Pandian, Dhruv Pathak, Keitaro Takahashi
Abstract
ABSTRACT PSR J1713+0747 is one of the most precisely timed pulsars in the international pulsar timing array experiment. This pulsar showed an abrupt profile shape change between 2021 April 16, (MJD 59320) and 2021 April 17 (MJD 59321). In this paper, we report the results from multi-frequency observations of this pulsar carried out with the upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (uGMRT) before and after the event. We demonstrate the profile change seen in Band 5 (1260 MHz–1460 MHz) and Band 3 (300 MHz–500 MHz). The timing analysis of this pulsar shows a disturbance accompanying this profile change followed by a recovery with a time-scale of ∼159 days. Our data suggest that a model with chromatic index as a free parameter is preferred over models with combinations of achromaticity with DM bump or scattering bump. We determine the frequency dependence to be ∼ν+1.34.