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Radio observations of the Crab pulsar were performed on the 100-m radio telescope of the Green Bank Observatory at a frequency of 2100 MHz in a 64-MHz band in two channels with right-and left-circular polarization. The Mark5A recording system was used. During 15 min of observing time, 609 giant pulses were recorded; the brightest had a peak flux density of 670 kJy. The energy distribution has been constructed, polarization properties have been analyzed, and the characteristic temporal and frequency scales in the radio emission of the detected giant pulses have been found. Comparison of these parameters indicates that the properties of giant pulses detected at the main-pulse and interpulse longitudes do not differ, as is clearly observed at frequencies above 4 GHz. Probable origins of the frequency evolution of the properties of giant pulses are discussed.
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Original Russian Text © V.I. Zhuravlev, M.V. Popov, V.I. Kondrat’ev, Yu.Yu. Kovalev, F. Ghigo, V.A. Soglasnov, 2011, published in Astronomicheskii Zhurnal, 2011, Vol. 88, No. 8, pp. 787–796.
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Zhuravlev, V.I., Popov, M.V., Kondrat’ev, V.I. et al. Parameters of giant pulses from the Crab pulsar measured with the Mark5A VLBI system. Astron. Rep. 55, 724–732 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063772911080105
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