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We have developed a relativistic model for pulsar radio emission and polarization by taking into account of detailed geometry of emission region, rotation and modulation. The sparks activity on the polar cap leads to plasma columns in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 D. Kumar , R. T. Gangadhara

Low-frequency spectral studies of radio pulsars represent a key method for uncovering their emission mechanisms, magnetospheric structure, and signal interactions with the surrounding interstellar medium (ISM). In recent years, more…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-13 Ting Yu , Zhongli Zhang , Hongyu Gong , Zhigang Wen

The strong activity of radio galaxies should have led to a nearly ubiquitous presence of fossil radio plasma in the denser regions of the inter-galactic medium as clusters, groups and filaments of galaxies. This fossil radio plasma can…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Torsten A. Ensslin

Motivated by recent results on the location of the radio emission in pulsar magnetospheres, we have developed a model which can account for the large diversity found in the average profile shapes of pulsars. At the centre of our model lies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Karastergiou , S. Johnston

The propagation of a wave in a medium is generally affected when the medium is moving with respect to the observer. Because plasma equilibria often involve plasma flows, for instance in astrophysics or in magnetic confinement nuclear fusion…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-07-22 Aymeric Braud , Julien Langlois , Renaud Gueroult

We consider the classical picture of three dimensional motion of charged particles in pulsar magnetosphere. We adopt a perturbative method to solve the equation of motion, and find the trajectory of particles as they move along the rotating…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. M. C. Thomas , R. T. Gangadhara

Luminosity is an intrinsic property of radio pulsars related to the properties of the magnetospheric plasma and the beam geometry, and inversely proportional to the observing frequency. In traditional models, luminosity has been considered…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-11 Manjari Bagchi

We apply a theory of wave propagation through a turbulent medium to the scattering of radio waves in pulsar magnetospheres. We find that under conditions of strong density modulation the effects of magnetospheric scintillations in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Maxim Lyutikov , Anuj Parikh

Formation of giant radio pulses is attributed to propagation effects in the plasma of pulsar magnetosphere. Induced scattering of radio waves by the plasma particles is found to lead to an efficient redistribution of the radio emission in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 S. A. Petrova

Generation of the pulsar radio emission from plasma waves excited by the two-stream instability is considered. Special attention is given to propagation effects.

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. E. Lyubarsky

Propagation of radio waves in the ultrarelativistic magnetized electron-positron plasma of pulsar magnetosphere is considered. Polarization state of the original natural waves is found to vary markedly on account of the wave mode coupling…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. A. Petrova

Super-sensitive observations of bright pulsars by the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) have revealed weak radio emission continuously emerged in the rotation phases between the main pulse and interpulse of an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-10 P. F. Wang , J. L. Han

We study the propagation of electromagnetic waves in tenuous plasmas, where the wave frequency, $\omega_0$, is much larger than the plasma frequency, $\omega_{\rm P}$. We show that in pair plasmas nonlinear effects are weak for $a_0 \ll…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-09 Emanuele Sobacchi , Masanori Iwamoto , Lorenzo Sironi , Tsvi Piran

The theory of magnetized induced scattering off relativistic gyrating particles is developed. It is directly applicable to the magnetosphere of a pulsar, in which case the particles acquire gyration energies as a result of resonant…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. A. Petrova

Gravitational waves (GW) propagating through a magnetised plasma excite low-frequency magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) waves. In this paper we investigate whether these waves can produce observable radio emission at higher frequencies by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Joachim Moortgat , Jan Kuijpers

Wave dispersion in a pulsar plasma is discussed emphasizing the relevance of different inertial frames, notably the plasma rest frame ${\cal K}$ and the pulsar frame ${\cal K}'$ in which the plasma is streaming with speed $\beta_{\rm s}$.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-07-17 M. Z. Rafat , D. B. Melrose , A. Mastrano

Aims. We explore frequency-dependent changes in pulsar radio emission by analyzing their profile widths and emission heights, assessing whether the simple radius-to-frequency mapping (RFM) or the fan beam model can describe the data.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-14 P. Jaroenjittichai , S. Johnston , S. Dai , M. Kerr , M. E. Lower , R. N. Manchester , L. S. Oswald , R. M. Shannon , C. Sobey , P. Weltevrede

Extended periods of radio pulsations have been observed for six magnetars, displaying characteristics different from those of ordinary pulsars. In this Letter, we argue that radio emission is generated in a closed, twisted magnetic flux…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-18 Shuzhe Zeng , Alexander Philippov , James Juno , Andrei M. Beloborodov , Elena Popova

The emission of intense radio pulses by flaring magnetars is investigated. Small-scale current gradients can be imprinted into a strongly magnetized outflow by the same processes that source fireball radiation in the closed magnetosphere.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-14 Christopher Thompson

We study the influence of the propagation effects on the mean profiles of radio pulsars using the Kravtsov-Orlov method of the wave propagation in the inhomogeneous media. This approach allows us firstly to include into consideration the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 V. S. Beskin , A. A. Philippov