Review of overall parameters of giant radio pulses from the Crab pulsar and B1937+21

TL;DR

This review summarizes recent observational parameters of giant radio pulses from the Crab pulsar and B1937+21 across a broad frequency range, highlighting their energy, spectral, and polarization characteristics.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive synthesis of observational data on giant radio pulses, emphasizing new insights into their spectral and polarization properties.

Findings

Pulse energy distribution patterns identified.

Dependence of peak flux on pulse width analyzed.

Spectral and polarization peculiarities discussed.

Abstract

We present a review of observed parameters of giant radio pulses, based on the observations conducted by our group during recent years. The observations cover a broad frequency range of about 3 octaves, concentrating between 600 and 4850 MHz. Giant pulses of both the Crab pulsar and the millisecond pulsar B1937+21 were studied with the 70-m Tidbinbilla, the 100-m GBT, 64-m Kalyazin and Westerbork radio telescopes. We discuss pulse energy distribution, dependence of peak flux density from the pulse width, peculiarities of radio spectra, and polarization properties of giant radio pulses.