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We study the wave propagation modes in the relativistic streaming pair plasma of the magnetospheres of pulsars and magnetars, focusing on the effect of vacuum polarization. We show that the combined plasma and vacuum polarization effects…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Chen Wang , Dong Lai

The magnetic field of the solar wind near the Sun is very difficult to measure directly. Measurements of Faraday rotation of linearly polarized radio sources occulted by the solar wind provide a unique opportunity to estimate this magnetic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 X. P. You , W. A. Coles , G. B. Hobbs , R. N. Manchester

Different ray paths through a turbulent plasma can produce stochastic Faraday rotation leading to depolarization of any linearly polarized component. Simple theory predicts that the average values of the Stokes parameters decay according to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 D. B. Melrose , J. -P. Macquart

We report on a giant Faraday effect in an electron plasma in n-InSb probed via polarization-resolved terahertz (THz) time-domain spectroscopy. Polarization rotation angles and ellipticities reach as large as {\pi}/2 and 1, respectively,…

Optics · Physics 2012-08-24 T. Arikawa , X. Wang , A. A. Belyanin , J. Kono

We present the measurements of Faraday rotation for 477 pulsars observed by the Parkes 64-m radio telescope and the Green Bank 100-m radio telescope. Using these results along with previous measurements for pulsars and extra-galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-31 J. L. Han , R. N. Manchester , W. van Straten , P. Demorest

The propagation of polarized emission in pulsar magnetosphere is investigated in this paper. The polarized waves are generated through curvature radiation from the relativistic particles streaming along curved magnetic field lines and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 P. F. Wang , C. Wang , J. L. Han

The Faraday rotation angle is calculated in a diffusive regime in a three dimensional disordered slab. It is shown that it is an oscillating function of the magnetic field or the mediums internal properties, and is proportional to the ratio…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-15 V. Gasparian , Zh. S. Gevorkian

Radio synchrotron emission, its polarization and its Faraday rotation are powerful tools to study the strength and structure of interstellar magnetic fields. In the Milky Way, Faraday rotation of the polarized emission from pulsars and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-08-24 R. Beck

(abridged) The physics of the pulsar magnetosphere remains poorly constrained by observations. Little is known about their emission mechanism. Large vacuum gaps probably exist, and a non-neutral plasma partially fills the neutron star…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jerome Petri

We present initial results of the first self-consistent numerical model of the outer magnetosphere of a pulsar. By using the relativistic ``particle-in-cell'' method with special boundary conditions to represent plasma dynamics in 3D, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Anatoly Spitkovsky , Jonathan Arons

The influence of the intrinsic spin of electrons on the propagation of circularly polarized waves in a magnetized plasma is considered. New eigenmodes are identified, one of which propagates below the electron cyclotron frequency, one above…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 A. P. Misra , G. Brodin , M. Marklund , P. K. Shukla

There are conflicting statements in the literature about the gravitational Faraday rotation of the plane of polarization of polarized electromagnetic radiation travelling through a gravitational wave. This issue is reconsidered using a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Valerio Faraoni

We present a simple numerical model of the plasma flow within the open field line tube in the pulsar magnetosphere. We study how the plasma screens the rotationally induced electric field and maintains the electric current demanded by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-11 Yuri Lyubarsky

Faraday rotation is one of the most widely used observables to infer the strength and configuration of the magnetic field in the ionised gas of the Milky Way and nearby spiral galaxies. Here we compute synthetic Faraday rotation maps at…

We present a physical interpretation for the generation of circular polarization resulting from the propagation of radiation through a magnetized plasma in terms of a rotation measure gradient, or `Faraday wedges'. Criteria for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. -P. Macquart , D. B. Melrose

An investigation of the kinematics of a rotating relativistic plasma stream in the perpendicular rotator model of the pulsar magnetosphere is presented. It is assumed that the plasma (ejected from the pulsar) moves along the pulsar magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 O. V. Chedia , T. A. Kahniashvili , G. Z. Machabeli , I. S. Nanobashvili

Faraday rotation of the polarization plane in magnetized thermal plasma provides one of the most efficient methods to deduce regular magnetic fields from radio astronomical observations. Since the Faraday rotation measure RM is proportional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Rainer Beck , Anvar Shukurov , Dmitry Sokoloff , Richard Wielebinski

Modern radio telescopes are extremely sensitive to plasma on the line of sight from a radio source to the antenna. Plasmas in the corona and solar wind produce measurable changes in the radio wave amplitude and phase, and the phase…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Steven R. Spangler , Catherine A. Whiting

Using the first station of the Long Wavelength Array (LWA1), we examine polarized pulsar emission between 25 and 88 MHz. Polarized light from pulsars undergoes Faraday rotation as it passes through the magnetized interstellar medium.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-01 V. Dike , G. B. Taylor , J. Dowell , K. Stovall

We investigate the rotation of the polarization of a light ray propagating in the gravitational field of a circularly polarized laser beam. The rotation consists of a reciprocal part due to gravitational optical activity, and a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-08 Fabienne Schneiter , Dennis Rätzel , Daniel Braun