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The radio polarization properties of the pulsar population are only superficially captured by the conventional picture of pulsar radio emission. We study the broadband polarization of 271 young radio pulsars, focusing particularly on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-16 L. S. Oswald , S. Johnston , A. Karastergiou , S. Dai , M. Kerr , M. E. Lower , R. N. Manchester , R. M. Shannon , C. Sobey , P. Weltevrede

We analyse the influence of rotation on shapes of pulse profiles of fast-rotating (millisecond) pulsars. Corotation has two opposing effects: 1) the caustic enhancement of the trailing side (TS) by aberration and retardation (AR), which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 J. Dyks , G. A. E. Wright , P. Demorest

We have developed a method to compute the possible distribution of radio emission regions in a typical pulsar magnetosphere, taking into account the viewing geometry and rotational effects of the neutron star. Our method can estimate the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 R. M. C. Thomas , Y. Gupta , R. T. Gangadhara

Polarization behaviour shows a transition in the pulsar population, where energetic sources with higher spin-down energy loss, $\dot{E} > 10^{34}$ erg~s$^{-1}$, often have fractional linear polarisation ($L/I$) close to 100\%, while below…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-20 Dipanjan Mitra , Rahul Basu , George I. Melikidze

It is crucial to know the polarization properties of coherent radio waves that escape from pulsar polar caps to calculate the radiative transfer through the magnetosphere and to predict observable radio properties. We describe pair cascades…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-25 Jan Benáček , Axel Jessner , Martin Pohl , Tatiana Rievajová , Lucy S. Oswald

Polarization is very sensitive to the configuration of the magnetic field in the radiation region. In addition to polarization curve and polarization spectrum, studies of polarization angle (PA) rotation spectrum is also crucial. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-15 Xing-Yao Wang , Jia-Sheng Li , Mi-Xiang Lan

We have analyzed the polarization properties of pulsars at an observing frequency of 4.9 GHz. Together with low frequency data, we are able to trace polarization profiles over more than three octaves into an interesting frequency regime. At…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. von Hoensbroech , J. Kijak , A. Krawczyk

Radio observations from normal pulsars indicate that the coherent radio emission is excited by curvature radiation from charge bunches. In this review we provide a systematic description of the various observational constraints on the radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-03 Dipanjan Mitra , Rahul Basu , George I Melikizde

The low-frequency profiles of some pulsars manifest temporal broadening due to scattering, usually accompanied by flat polarization position angle (PA) curves. Assuming that the scattering works on the 4 Stokes parameters in the same way,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 X. H. Li , J. L. Han

We present the influence of the special relativistic effects of aberration and light travel time delay on pulsar high-energy lightcurves and polarization characteristics predicted by three models: the two-pole caustic model, the outer gap…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Dyks , A. K. Harding , B. Rudak

We present radio intensity and polarisation profiles of 28 $\gamma$-ray-detected pulsars with the aim of putting constraints on their viewing geometries using data from the Parkes telescope. Constraints are formed both from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 S. C. Rookyard , P. Weltevrede , S. Johnston

This paper presents a method of estimation of emission altitudes using observational data - precise measurements of pulse profile widths at low intensity level. The analysis of emission altitudes obtained using this method for a large…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Kijak

The population of radio pulsars is observed to demonstrate certain polarization properties not explained by the conventional picture of pulsar polarization, namely frequency evolution of polarization, deviations of the linear polarization…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-02 Lucy Oswald , Aris Karastergiou , Simon Johnston

Recently, polarization angle (PA) orthogonal jumps over millisecond timescales were discovered from three bursts of a repeating fast radio burst source FRB 20201124A by the FAST telescope. In general, PA jumps can arise from the coherent or…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-03 Yuanhong Qu , Bing Zhang , Pawan Kumar

The magnetospheric locations of pulsar radio emission region are not well known. The actual form of the so--called radius--to--frequency mapping should be reflected in the aberration--retardation (A/R) effects that shift and/or delay the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. Krzeszowski , D. Mitra , Y. Gupta , J. Kijak , J. Gil , A. Acharyya

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

In this work we present a revised measurement of the phase-averaged optical polarisation of the Vela pulsar (PSR B0833-45), for which only one value has been published so far (Wagner & Seifert 2000). Our measurement has been obtained…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. P. Mignani , S. Bagnulo , J. Dyks , G. Lo Curto , A. Slowikowska

We have developed a model for pulsar polarization by taking into account of viewing geometry, rotation and modulation of the emission region. By solving for the plasma dynamics, we deduced the expressions for curvature radiation electric…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-09-06 Dinesh Kumar , R. T. Gangadhara

We have conducted observations of 22 pulsars at frequencies of 0.7, 1.4 and 3.1 GHz and present their polarization profiles. The observations were carried out for two main purposes. First we compare the orientation of the spin and velocity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Simon Johnston , M. Kramer , A. Karastergiou , G. Hobbs , S. Ord , J. Wallman

Polarization observations of radio pulsars show that abrupt transitions in the polarization vector's position angle can be accompanied by large excursions in the vector's ellipticity angle, suggesting the vector passes near the right or…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-20 M. M. McKinnon