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Often I will hear quoted such and such Pulsar has a period of X and a Pdot of Y. However this is somewhat ambiguous to me. If the period is changing, then how does one quote its period? Obviously, by using some unambiguous standard that I am unsure of. Is the reported period (in a paper about an observation, say) the period at the start of the observation?