Pulsar subpulse modulation properties at 21cm

Using new observations and archival WSRT data we have increased the list of pulsars that show the drifting subpulse phenomenon by 42, indicating that at least one in three pulsars exhibits this phenomenon. The real fraction of pulsars that show the drifting phenomenon is likely to be larger than 55%.

The majority of the analysed pulsars show subpulse modulation (170), of which the majority were not previously known to show subpulse modulation and 30 show clear systematic drifting. The large number of new drifters we have found allows us, for the first time, to do meaningful statistics on the drifting phenomenon.