Table 3: Main properties of the dm radio spikes with and without internal structure, shorter than 100 ms, observed between February 2000 and December 2001 with the 15-m radio telescope and fast radiospectrograph of Torun Observatory.
  Spikes without internal structure Spikes with internal structure

No. spikes

1699 1837
Duration (s)    
min/max 0.008/0.099 0.003/0.099
mean/median (skew.) 0.029/0.024 (1.9) 0.046/0.047 (0.1)
Width (MHz):    
min/max 3.1/31.4 3.0/25.9
mean/median (skew.) 10.38/9.5 (1.0) 9.2/8.7 (0.9)
Relative width (%)    
min/max 0.21/2.24 0.21/1.82
mean/median (skew.) 0.73/0.68 (1.0) 0.65/0.61 (0.9)
Negative drifts (MHz/s)    
No. spikes 381 1462
min/max 64/5462 63/12141
mean/median (skew.) 1089/762 (1.7) 467/321 (9.1)
Positive drifts (MHz/s)    
No. spikes 236 136
min/max 111/9102 51/13425
mean/median (skew.) 1460/1113 (2.3) 942/604 (6.1)


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