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Radio pulsar B1933+16 is brightest core-radiation dominated pulsar in the Arecibo sky, and here we carry out a comprehensive high resolution polarimetric study of its radiation at both 1.5 and 4.6 GHz. At 1.5 GHz, the polarization is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-27 Dipanjan Mitra , Joanna Rankin , Mihir Arjunwadkar

We study the propagation effects of radio waves in a pulsar magnetosphere, composed of relativistic electron-positron pair plasmas streaming along the magnetic field lines and corotating with the pulsar. We critically examine the various…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 Chen Wang , Dong Lai , JinLin Han

In this work, we observe the nearby pulsar, PSR B1929$+$10, using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). We find, for the first time, two new emission components with an extremely weak observed flux density of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-02 Zhengli Wang , Jiguang Lu , Weiyang Wang , Shunshun Cao , Jinchen Jiang , Jiangwei Xu , Kejia Lee , Enwei Liang , Hongguang Wang , Renxin Xu

We have conducted the largest investigation to date into the origin of phase resolved, apparent RM variations in the polarized signals of radio pulsars. From a sample of 98 pulsars based on observations at 1.4 GHz with the Parkes radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-12 Cristina-Diana Ilie , Simon Johnston , Patrick Weltevrede

The pulsar profile is characterised by two distinct emission components, the core and the cone. The standard model of a pulsar radio emission beam originating from dipolar magnetic fields, places the core at the centre surrounded by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-30 Rahul Basu , Dipanjan Mitra , George I. Melikidze

Aberration and retardation of the radiation within a pulsar's magnetosphere enable a single corotating absorbing region in the outer magnetosphere to give rise to a 'double notch' in the pulsar's observed radio profile. This effect requires…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Geoffrey A. E. Wright

We report here the discovery of a significant source of systematic error in the rotation measure determinations of pulsars. Conventional analysis of high sensitivity polarimetric observations of PSR B2016+28 display variation of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Ramachandran , D. C. Backer , J. M. Rankin , J. M. Weisberg , K. E. Devine

The perturbations such as rotation and PC--current have been believed to be greatly affecting the pulsar radio emission and polarization. The two effects have not been considered simultaneously in the literature, however, each one of these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 D. Kumar , R. T. Gangadhara

Polarization measurements provide strong constraints on models for emission from rotation-powered pulsars. We present multiwavelength polarization predictions showing that measurements over a range of frequencies can be particularly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-24 Alice K. Harding , Constantinos Kalapotharakos

The radiation by relativistic plasma particles is beamed in the direction of field line tangents in the corotating frame, but in an inertial frame it is aberrated toward the direction of rotation. We have revised the relation of aberration…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. T. Gangadhara

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 magnetosphere of, and electromagnetic (EM) radiation from pulsars are usually described in the framework of classical electrodynamics. For some pulsars, however, whose emission heights are relatively close to the surface of the neutron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-29 Dong-Hoon Kim , Sascha Trippe

Lyne & Manchester (1988) identified a group of some 50 pulsars they called "partial cones" which they found difficult to classify and interpret. They were notable for their asymmetric average profiles and asymmetric polarization…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 Dipanjan Mitra , Joanna. M. Rankin

To study the strength and structure of the magnetic field in the Galactic centre (GC) we measured Faraday rotation of the radio emission of pulsars which are seen towards the GC. Three of these pulsars have the largest rotation measures…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-04-20 D. H. F. M. Schnitzeler , R. P. Eatough , K. Ferrière , M. Kramer , K. J. Lee , A. Noutsos , R. M. Shannon

We use a set of carefully selected published average multifrequency polarimetric observations for six bright cone dominated pulsars and devise a method to combine the multifrequency polarization position angle (PPA) sweep traverses. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Dipanjan Mitra , X. H. Li

With the ever-increasing sensitivity and timing baselines of modern radio telescopes, a growing number of pulsars are being shown to exhibit transitions in their rotational and radio emission properties. In many of these cases, the two are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-11 B. Shaw , B. W. Stappers , P. Weltevrede , P. R. Brook , A. Karastergiou , C. A. Jordan , M. J. Keith , M. Kramer , A. G. Lyne

Radio pulsar polarization exhibits a number of complex phenomena that are classified into the realm of `beyond the rotating vector model' (RVM). It is shown that these effects can be understood in geometrical terms, as a result of coherent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-26 J. Dyks

We study the pulse morphologies and pulse amplitudes of thermally emitting neutron stars with ultrastrong magnetic fields. The beaming of the radiation emerging from a magnetar was recently shown to be predominantly non-radial, with a small…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Feryal Ozel

We present polarisation observations of five pulsars whose profiles exhibit two distinct emission regions separated by close to 180 degrees of longitude. We fitted the position angle of the linear polarisation using the rotating vector…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 M. J. Keith , S. Johnston , M. Kramer , P. Weltevrede

In the canonical picture of pulsars, radio emission arises from a narrow cone centered on the star's magnetic axis but many basic details remain unclear. We use high-quality polarization data taken with the Parkes radio telescope to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-11-06 Simon Johnston , Michael Kramer