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We study the magnetosphere of a slowly rotating magnetized neutron star subject to toroidal oscillations in the relativistic regime. Under the assumption of a zero inclination angle between the magnetic moment and the angular momentum of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 V. S. Morozova , B. J. Ahmedov , O. Zanotti

We performed Monte Carlo simulations of different properties of pulsar radio emission, such as: pulsar periods, pulse-widths, inclination angles and rates of occurrence of interpulse emission (IP). We used recently available large data sets…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-06-29 Krzysztof Maciesiak , Janusz Gil , Valério A. R. M. Ribeiro

Using a highly accurate numerical code, we study the spin down of rotating relativistic stars, undergoing a quark deconfinement phase transition. Such phase transitions have been suggested to yield an observable signal in the braking index…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 N. K. Spyrou , N. Stergioulas

Pulsar electrodynamics has been built up by taking ingredients from two models, the vacuum-dipole model, which ignores the magnetosphere but includes the inductive electric field due to the obliquely rotating magnetic dipole, and the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 D. B. Melrose , Rai Yuen

The fundamentals of precessing ball solitons (PBS), arising as a result of the energy fluctuations during spin-flop phase transition induced by a magnetic field in antiferromagnets with uniaxial anisotropy, are presented. The PBS conditions…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-02-06 V. V. Nietz

The observed fraction of pulsars with interpulses, their period distribution and the observed pulse width versus pulse period correlation is shown to be inconsistent with a model in which the angle alpha between the magnetic axis and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Patrick Weltevrede , Simon Johnston

The close correlation observed between emission state and spin-down rate change of pulsars has many implications both for the magnetospheric physics and the neutron star interior. The middle-aged pulsar PSR J0738$-$4042, which had been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-23 S. Q. Zhou , E. Gügercinoğlu , J. P. Yuan , M. Y. Ge , C. Yu , C. M. Zhang , J. Zhang , Z. W. Feng , C. Q. Ye

Recent re-determination of stellar atmospheric parameters for a sample of stars observed during the {\it Kepler} mission allowed to enlarge the number of {\it Kepler} B-type stars. We present the detailed frequency analysis for all these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-19 Wojciech Szewczuk , Przemysław Walczak , Jadwiga Daszyńska-Daszkiewicz

We present the statistical results of a systematic, unbiased search for subpulse modulation of 187 pulsars performed with the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT) in the Netherlands at an observing wavelength of 21 cm (Weltevrede et…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Weltevrede , R. T. Edwards , B. W. Stappers

The period and the period derivative of a pulsar are critical magnitudes for defining the properties of the magnetospheric size and plasma dynamics. The pulsar light cylinder, the magnetic field intensity nearby it, and the curvature radius…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-27 Daniel Íñiguez-Pascual , Diego F. Torres , Daniele Viganò

We build a model of radius-to-frequency mapping in magnetospheres of neutron stars and apply it to frequency drifts observed in Fast Radio Bursts. We assume that an emission patch propagates along the dipolar magnetic field lines producing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-09 Maxim Lyutikov

Pulsars are rapidly spinning and highly magnetized neutron stars, with highly stable rotational period and gradual spin-down over a long timescale due to the loss of radiation. Glitches refer to the events that suddenly increase the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-06 C. W. Ng , J. Takata , K. S. Cheng

Neutron stars such as pulsars and magnetars lose angular momentum primarily through electromagnetic dipole radiation, gravitational waves, $r$-mode oscillation, and also affected by fallback accretion processes. However, anomalous spin…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-29 Indra Kumar Banerjee , Sandeep Chatterjee , Biswarup Das , Ujjal Kumar Dey

We interpret recent observations of high-to-low frequency drifting features in the spectra of the repeating FRBs as evidence of sharply changing plasma properties in the emission region, presumably the neutron stars magnetospheres. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-21 Maxim Lyutikov

Rotating neutron stars, or pulsars, are plausibly the source of power behind many astrophysical systems, such as gamma-ray bursts, supernovae, pulsar wind nebulae and supernova remnants. In the past several years, 3D numerical simulations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-23 Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Alexander Philippov , Anatoly Spitkovsky

We present a detailed single-pulse analysis for PSR B1929+10 based on observations with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). The main pulse and interpulse are found to be modulated with a periodicity of $\sim12$…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-24 F. F. Kou , W. M. Yan , B. Peng , J. G. Lu , K. Liu , C. M. Zhang , R. G. Strom , L. Wang , J. P. Yuan , Rai Yuen , Y. Z. Yu , J. M. Yao , B. Liu , J. Yan , P. Jiang , C. J. Jin , D. Li , L. Qian , Y. L. Yue , Y. Zhu

Pulsars are rotating neutron stars which emit lighthouse-like beams. Owing to their unique properties, pulsars are a unique astrophysical tool to test general relativity, inform on matter at extreme densities, and probe galactic magnetic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-24 Renaud Gueroult , Yuan Shi , Jean-Marcel Rax , Nathaniel J. Fisch

We conduct force-free simulations of a single neutron star undergoing orbital motion in flat spacetime, mimicking the trajectory of the star about the center of mass on a compact binary system. Our attention is focused on the kinetic energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-18 Federico Carrasco , Masaru Shibata

In this paper we analyze high time resolution single pulse data of PSR B0809+74 at 820 MHz. We compare the subpulse phase behavior, undocumented at 820 MHz, with previously published results. The subpulse period changes over time and we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 R. Rosen , P. Demorest

The purpose of this paper is to suggest how detailed single-pulse observations of ``slow'' radio pulsars may be utilized to construct an empirical model for their emission. It links the observational synthesis developed in a series of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Joanna M. Rankin , Geoffrey A. E. Wright