We report the detection of giant pulse emission from PSR B0950+08 in 24 hours of observations made at 39.4 MHz , with a bandwidth of 16 MHz , using the first station of the Long Wavelength Array , LWA1 .
We detected 119 giant pulses from PSR B0950+08 ( at its dispersion measure ) , which we define as having SNRs at least 10 times larger than for the mean pulse in our data set .
These 119 pulses are 0.035 % of the total number of pulse periods in the 24 hours of observations .
The rate of giant pulses is about 5.0 per hour .
The cumulative distribution of pulse strength S is a steep power law , N ( > S ) \propto S ^ { -4.7 } , but much less steep than would be expected if we were observing the tail of a Gaussian distribution of normal pulses .
We detected no other transient pulses in a dispersion measure range from 1 to 90 pc cm ^ { -3 } , in the beam tracking PSR B0950+08 .
The giant pulses have a narrower temporal width than the mean pulse ( 17.8 ms , on average , vs. 30.5 ms ) .
The pulse widths are consistent with a previously observed weak dependence on observing frequency , which may be indicative of a deviation from a Kolmogorov spectrum of electron density irregularities along the line of sight .
The rate and strength of these giant pulses is less than has been observed at \sim 100 MHz .
Additionally , the mean ( normal ) pulse flux density we observed is less than at \sim 100 MHz .
These results suggest this pulsar is weaker and produces less frequent giant pulses at 39 MHz than at 100 MHz .