PUBLICATIONS OF JOEL M. WEISBERG
Refereed Papers
1. (with J.M. Rankin, R.R. Payne and C.C. Counselman) Further Changes in the Distribution of Density and Radio Scattering in the Solar Corona in 1973, Astrophys. J. 209, 252 (1976).
2. (with A. Hoag) Optical Search for GX 17 + 2, Astrophys. J. 209, 908 (1976).
3. (with J.D. Fix) A Low Detection Limit Search for OH Emission from IR Stars, Astrophys. J. 220, 836 (1978).
4. (with R.L. Mutel) Two-Frequency Radio Polarimetry of UX Arietis and HR 1099, Astron. J. 83, 1499 (1978).
5. (with P.M. McCulloch and J.H. Taylor) Tests of a New Dispersion- Removing Radiometer on Binary Pulsar PSR 1913+16, Astrophys. J. Lett. 227, L133 (1979).
6. (with V. Boriakoff and J.M. Rankin) Neutral Hydrogen Absorption in the Spectra of Four Low-Latitude Pulsars, Astron. Astrophys. 77, 204 (1979).
7. (with J.M. Rankin and V. Boriakoff) HI Absorption Measurements of Seven Low-Latitude Pulsars, Astron. Astrophys. 88, 84 (1980).
8. (with J.H. Taylor) Gravitational Radiation from an Orbiting Pulsar, General Relativity and Gravitation, 13, 1 (1981).
9. (with V. Boriakoff, D. Ferguson, P. Backus and J. Cordes) A Search for Interpulse Emission in 28 Pulsars, Astron. J. 86, 1098 (1981).
10. (with D. Ferguson, V. Boriakoff, P. Backus and J. Cordes) Discovery of Mode Switching in PSR 1926+18, Astron. Astrophys. 94, L6 (1981).
11. (with J.M. Dickey, J.M. Rankin and V. Boriakoff) Statistics of Neutral Hydrogen Absorption Toward Pulsars, Astron. Astrophys. 101, 332 (1981).
12. (with J.H. Taylor) A New Test of General Relativity: Gravitational Radiation and the Binary Pulsar PSR 1913+16, Astrophys. J. 253, 908 (1982).
13. (with J.M. Cordes and V. Boriakoff) An Attempt to Resolve Pulsar Magnetospheres Using Interstellar Scintillations, Astrophys. J. 268, 370 (1983).
14. (with R.J. Dewey, J.M. Uson, D.T. Wilkinson and A.A. Stark) Search for CO Emission at High Galactic Latitude, Astron.J. 88, 1832 (1983).
15. (with D.R. Stinebring, J.M. Cordes, J.M. Rankin and V. Boriakoff) Pulsar Polarization Fluctuations. I. 1404 MHz Statistical Summaries, Astrophys. J. Suppl. 55, 247 (1984).
16. (with D.R. Stinebring, J.M. Cordes, J.M. Rankin and V. Boriakoff) Pulsar Polarization Fluctuations. II. 800 MHz Statistical Summaries, Astrophys. J. Suppl. 55, 279 (1984).
17. (with J.H. Taylor) Observations of Post-Newtonian Timing Effects in the Binary Pulsar PSR 1913+16, Phys. Rev. Lett. 52, 1348 (1984). [This paper has been reprinted in The Physical Review -- The First Hundred Years -- A Selection of Seminal Papers and Commentaries, ed. H.H. Stroke, Amer. Inst. of Physics, Woodbury, NY (1995).]
18. (with J.M. Cordes and V. Boriakoff) Small Scale Electron Density Turbulence in the Interstellar Medium, Astrophys. J. 288, 221 (1985).
19. (with R.J. Dewey, J.H. Taylor, and G.H. Stokes) A Search for Low Luminosity Pulsars, Astrophys. J. Lett. 294, L25 (1985).
20. (with D.C. Backer, E.B. Fomalont, W.M. Goss, and J.H. Taylor) Accurate Timing and Interferometer Positions for the Millisecond Pulsar 1937+21 and the Binary Pulsar 1913+16, Astron. J. 90, 2275 (1985).
21. (with M.M. Davis, J.H. Taylor, and D.C. Backer) High Precision Timing Observations of the Millisecond Pulsar PSR 1937+21, Nature 315, 547 (1985).
22. (with G.H. Stokes, J.H. Taylor, and R.J. Dewey) A Survey for Short-Period Pulsars, Nature 317, 787 (1985).
23. (with C.R. Gwinn, J.H. Taylor, and L.A. Rawley) Measurement of Pulsar Parallaxes by VLBI, Astron. J. 91, 338 (1986).
24. (with B.K. Armstrong, P.R. Backus, J.M. Cordes, V. Boriakoff, and D.C. Ferguson) High Sensitivity Observations of 28 Pulsars, Astron. J. 92, 621 (1986).
25. (with D. Domingue, J.M. Rankin, and P.R. Backus) Pulsar 0656+14: Period and Spindown, Astron. Astrophys. 161, 303 (1986).
26. (with J.M. Rankin and V. Boriakoff) Neutral Hydrogen Absorption Measurements of Ten Pulsars and the Electron Density in the Galactic Plane, Astron. Astrophys. 186, 307 (1987).
27. (with T.R. Clifton, D.A. Frail, and S.R. Kulkarni) Neutral Hydrogen Absorption Observations Toward High-Dispersion Measure Pulsars, Astrophys. J. 333, 332 (1988).
28. (with J.H. Taylor) Further Experimental Tests of Relativistic Gravity Using the Binary Pulsar PSR 1913+16, Astrophys. J. 345, 434 (1989).
29. (with J.M. Rankin and D.R. Stinebring) Arecibo 21-cm Polarimetry of 64 Pulsars: A Guide to Classification, Astrophys. J. 346, 869 (1989).
30. (with R.W. Romani and J.H. Taylor) Evidence for Geodetic Spin Precession in the Binary Pulsar PSR 1913+16, Astrophys. J. 347, 1030 (1989).
31. (with A.S. Fruchter, G. Berman, G. Bower, M. Convery, W.M. Goss, T.H. Hankins, J.R. Klein, D.J. Nice, M.F. Ryba, D.R. Stinebring, J.H. Taylor, and S.E. Thorsett) The Eclipsing Millisecond Pulsar PSR 1957+20, Astrophys. J. 351, 642 (1990).
32. (with D.A. Frail) A Critical Evaluation of Pulsar Distance Measurements, Astron. J. 100, 743 (1990).
33. (with J.M. Cordes and T.H. Hankins) Quasi-Periodic Microstructure in Pulsar Radio Emissions, Astron. J. 100, 1882 (1990).
34. (with D. A. Frail, J.M. Cordes, and T.H. Hankins) HI Absorption Measurements Toward 15 Pulsars and the Radial Distribution of Diffuse Ionized Gas in the Galaxy, Astrophys. J. 382 168 (1991).
35. (with J.M. Cordes, D. A. Frail, S.R. Spangler, and M. Ryan) The Galactic Distribution of Free Electrons, Nature 354, 121 (1991).
36. (with J.H. Taylor, A. Wolszczan, and T. Damour) Experimental Constraints on Strong-Field Relativistic Gravity, Nature, 355, 132 (1992).
37. (with D.A. Frail, J.M. Cordes, and C. Mathers*) Probing the Interstellar Medium with Pulsars on AU Scales, Astrophys. J., 436, 144 (1994).
38. (with J.F. Bell, M. Bailes, R.N. Manchester, and A.G. Lyne) The Proper Motion and Wind Nebula of the Nearby Millisecond Pulsar J0437-4715, Astrophys. J. (Letters), 440, L81 (1995).
39. (with B. Koribalski, S. Johnston, and W. Wilson) HI Line Measurements of Eight Southern Pulsars, Astrophys. J., 441, 756 (1995).
40. (with M.H. Siegel*, D.A. Frail, and S. Johnston) Neutral Hydrogen Absorption Measurements of Four Distant Pulsars and the Electron Density in the Inner Galaxy, Astrophys. J., 447, 204, (1995).
41. (with S. Johnston, B. Koribalski, and W. Wilson) HI Line Measurements of Pulsars Towards the Gum Nebula and the Carina Arm, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 279, 661(1996).
42. (with J. Osterberg, L. Staveley-Smith, J.M. Dickey, and U. Mebold) A Search for NH3 in the Large Magellanic Cloud, Publ. Astron. Soc. Aust., 14, 246 (1997)
43. (with J.M. Cordes, S.C. Lundgren, B.R. Dawson*, J.T. Despotes*, J.J. Morgan*, K.A. Weitz*, E.C. Zink*, and D.C. Backer) Arecibo 1418 MHz Polarimetry of 98 Pulsars: Full Stokes Profiles and Morphological Classifications, Astrophys. J. Suppl. 121, 171 (1999)
44. (with S. Johnston, B. Koribalski, and W. Wilson) HI Line Measurements of Pulsars Towards the Galactic Center and the Electron Density in the Inner Galaxy, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 322, 715 (2001)
45. (with J.E. Everett*) Emission Beam Geometry of Selected Pulsars Determined from Average Pulse Polarization Data, Astrophys. J. 553, 341 (2001)
46. (with J.H. Taylor) General Relativistic Geodetic Spin Precession in Binary Pulsar B1913+16: Mapping the Emission Beam in Two Dimensions, Astrophys. J. 576, 942 (2002)
47. (with S. Stanimirovic,
J. M. Dickey, A. de la Fuente*, K. Devine*, A. Hedden*, and S.B. Anderson)
Detection of OH Absorption Against PSR B1849+00, Astrophys. J., 592, 953 (2003)
48. (with S. Stanimirovic, A. Hedden*, K.E. Devine*, and J.T. Green*) Does Tiny-Scale Structure Exist in the Interstellar Medium?, Astrophys. J. Lett., 598, L23 (2003)
49. (with J.M. Cordes, B. Kuan*, K.E. Devine*, J.T. Green*, and D.C. Backer) Arecibo 430 MHz Pulsar Polarimetry: Faraday Rotation Measures and Morphological Classifications, Astrophys. J. Suppl. 150, 317 (2004)
50. (with D. J. Champion, D.R. Lorimer, M.A. McLaughlin, J.M. Cordes, Z. Arzoumanian, and J.H. Taylor) PSR J1829+2456: A Relativistic Binary Pulsar, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 350, L61 (2004)
51. (with R. Ramachandran, D.C. Backer, J.M. Rankin, and K.E. Devine*) Effect of Quasi-Orthogonal Emission Modes on the Rotation Measures of Pulsars, Astrophys. J., 606, 1167 (2004)
52. (with S. Johnston, B. Koribalski, and S. Stanimirovic) Discovery of Pulsed OH Maser Emission Stimulated by a Pulsar, Science, 309, 106 (2005) [Direct link to article]
53. (with S. Johnston, G. Hobbs, S. Vigeland*, M. Kramer, and A.G. Lyne) Evidence for Alignment of the Rotation and Velocity Vectors in Pulsars, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 364, 1397 (2005)
54. (with S. Johnston) The Morphology and Polarization of Young Pulsars, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 368, 1856 (2006)
55. (with J.O. Urama and B.
Link) A strong nudot-nudoubledot correlation in radio pulsars with implications
for torque variations, Monthly
Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 370, L76 (2006)
56. (with, S. Stanimirovic, K. Xilouris, A.
Hedden*, A. de la Fuente*, S. B. Anderson, and F. A. Jenet) Arecibo HI
Absorption Measurements of Pulsars and the Electron Density at Intermediate
Longitudes in the First Galactic Quadrant, Astrophys. J., 674, 286 (2008).
57. (with T. Clifton) A Simple Model for Pulse Profiles from Precessing Pulsars, with Special Application to Relativistic Binary PSR B1913+16, Astrophys. J., 679, 687 (2008).
58. (with, S. Stanimirovic,
, Z. Pei*, K. Tuttle*, and J. T. Green*) Pulsar
Measurements of Tiny-Scale Atomic
Structure, Astrophys. J., 720, 415 (2010).
59. (with J. E. Everett*, J.
M. Cordes, J. J. Morgan*, and D. G. Brisbin*) A Search for Neutron Star Precession and Interstellar
Magnetic Field Variations via Multiepoch Pulsar Polarimetry, Astrophys. J.,721, 1044
(2010).
60. (with D. J. Nice and J. H. Taylor) Timing Measurements of the Relativistic Binary Pulsar , PSR B1913+16, Astrophys. J., 722, 1030 (2010).
61. (with J. P. W. Verbiest, A. A. Chael*, K. J. Lee, and D. R. Lorimer) On Pulsar Distance Measurements and their Uncertainties, Astrophys. J., 755, 39 (2012).
62. (with T. Paglen) A Temporal Map in Geostationary Orbit: The Cover Etching on the EchoStar XVI Artifact, Astron. J., 144, 118 ( 2012). [Direct link to article pdf]
63. (with Z.-X. Liang and Y. Liang) Testing the rotating lighthouse model with the double pulsar system PSR J0737-3039A/B, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 439, 3712 (2014). [Direct link to article]
64. (with J. van Leeuwen et al.) The binary companion of young, relativistic pulsar J1906+0746, Astrophys. J., 798, 118 (2015).
65. (with H. Wahl, D. J. Orfeo, and J. M. Rankin) Quasi-Periodicities in the Anomalous Emission Events in Pulsars B1859+07 and B0919+06, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 461, 3740 (2016).
66. (with Y. Huang*) Relativistic Measurements from Timing the Binary Pulsar PSR B1913+16, Astrophys. J., 829, 55 (2016).
67. (with J. M. Rankin, A. Archibald, J. Hessels, J. van Leeuwen, D. Mitra, S. Ransom, I. Stairs, and W. van Straten) Toward an Empirical Theory of Pulsar Emission XII: Exploring the Physical Conditions in Millisecond Pulsar Emission Regions, Astrophys. J., 845, 23 (2017).
68. (with A. T. Deller, D. J. Nice, and S. Chatterjee) A VLBI Distance and Transverse Velocity for PSR B1913+16, Astrophys. J., 862, 139 (2018).
69. (with J. Rankin, A. Venkataraman, and A. P. Curtin*) Polarization Measurements of Arecibo-sky Pulsars: Faraday Rotations and Emission-beam Analyses, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 524, 5042 (2023). [Direct link to article]
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Technical Reports
Invited Papers
Published Software
(with J. E. Everett*) The Free Precession of an Oblate Star, Mathematica Notebook on the MathSource Library of the World Wide Web, at URL http://www.mathsource.com/cgi-bin/MathSource/Applications/Astronomy/0208-572 (1997)
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Published Abstracts of Talks and Posters
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Educational Papers and Books