出版社：SISSA, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati
摘要：Here I will review the high time resolution radio sky, focusing on millisecond scales. This is primarily occupied by neutron stars, the well-known radio pulsars and the recently identied group of transient sources known as Rotating RAdio Transients (RRATs). The RRATs appear to be abundant in the Galaxy, which at rst glance may be difcult to reconcile with the observed supernova rate. However, as I will discuss, it seems that the RRATs can be explained as pulsars which are either extreme nullers, highly variable or weak/distant. I will re-cap some recent results including a re-analysis of the Parkes Multi-beam Pulsar Survey, which has identied several new sources, as well as the unusual timing behaviour of RRAT J1819¡1458. This leads to an examination of where RRATs t within the evolution of neutron stars post-supernova.
