2010ApJ...719L.111Y

Seven year pulse time-of-arrival measurements have been collected from observations of the young pulsar PSR B2334+61 using the Nanshan radio telescope of Urumqi Observatory. A phase-connected solution has been obtained over the whole data span, 2002 August to 2009 August. This includes a very large glitch that occurred between 2005 August 26 and September 8 (MJDs 53608 and 53621). The relative increase in rotational frequency for this glitch, Δν_ g_/ν ∼ 20.5x10^–6, is the largest ever seen. Although accounting for less than 1% of the glitch, there were two well-defined exponential decay terms with time constants of 21 and 147 days, respectively. There was also a large long-term increase in the spin-down rate with Δ{dot}ν_p/{dot}ν∼0.011 at the time of the glitch. A highly significant oscillation with a period of close to one year is seen in the post-glitch residuals. It is very unlikely that this can be accounted for by a pulsar position error or proper motion–it appears to result from effects interior to the neutron star. Implications of these results for pulsar glitch models are discussed.