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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

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

New-generation X-ray polarimeters currently under development promise to open a new window in the study of high-energy astrophysical sources. Among them, neutron stars appear particularly suited for polarization measurements. Radiation from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-24 Roberto Taverna , Roberto Turolla , Denis Gonzalez Caniulef , Silvia Zane , Fabio Muleri , Paolo Soffitta

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

The diverse polarization properties in pulsars are in conflict with applying a unique emission mechanism to the population. The polarization position angle (PPA) traverse in most pulsars shows a S-shaped curve that can be interpreted using…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-01 Dipanjan Mitra , George I. Melikidze , Rahul Basu

For a subclass of polar-cap models based on electromagnetic cascades induced by curvature radiation (CR) we calculate broad-band high-energy spectra of pulsed emission expected for classical and millisecond pulsars. The spectra are a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 B. Rudak , J. Dyks

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

Recent observations of the polarisation of the optical pulses from the Crab pulsar motivated detailed comparative studies of the emission predicted by the polar cap, the outer gap and the two-pole caustics models. In this work, we study the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Petri , J. Kirk

A model is proposed for the observed combination of power-law and thermal emission of keV X-rays from rotationally powered pulsars. For gamma-ray pulsars with accelerators very many stellar radii above the neutron star surface, 100 MeV…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 F. Y. -H. Wang , M. Ruderman , J. P. Halpern , T. Zhu

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 perform global particle-in-cell simulations of pulsar magnetospheres including pair production, ion extraction from the surface, frame dragging corrections, and high energy photon emission and propagation. In the case of oblique…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-28 Alexander A. Philippov , Anatoly Spitkovsky

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

Observations have established that coherent radio emission from pulsars arise at few hundred kilometers above stellar surface. Recent polarization studies have further demonstrated that plasma instabilities are necessary for charge bunching…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-17 Rahul Basu , Dipanjan Mitra , George I. Melikidze , Krzysztof Maciesiak

The direction of polarization produced by a moving source rotates with the respect to the rest frame. We show that this effect, induced by pulsar rotation, leads to an important correction to polarization swings within the framework of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-07 Maxim Lyutikov

Synchrotron radiation facilities provide highly polarized X-ray beams across a wide energy range. However, the exact type and degree of polarization varies according to the beamline and experimental setup. To accurately determine the angle…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-05-31 L. Manzanillas , J. M. Ablett , M. Choukroun , F. J. Iguaz , J. P. Rueff

Synchrotron radiation is widely considered as the origin of the pulsed non-thermal emissions from rotation-powered pulsars in optical and X-ray bands. In this paper, we study the synchrotron radiation emitted by the created electron and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-15 Shota Kisaka , Shuta J. Tanaka

Polarization profiles are presented for 20 millisecond pulsars that are being observed as part of the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array project. The observations used the Parkes multibeam receiver with a central frequency of 1369 MHz and the…

We present a model for the gamma-ray emission of pulsars in terms of curvature radiation by highly relativistic particles. It is shown that the injection of power-law primary particles from an outer gap and subsequent cooling by curvature…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. R. Crusius-Waetzel , H. Lesch

Polarimetric properties of blazars allow us to put constraints on the acceleration mechanisms that fuel their powerful jets. By studying the multiwavelength polarimetric behaviour of high synchrotron peaked (HSP) and low synchrotron peaked…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-21 Sara Capecchiacci , Ioannis Liodakis , Riccardo Middei , Dawoon E. Kim , Laura Di Gesu , Ivan Agudo , Beatriz Agis-Gonzalez , Axel Arbet-Engels , Dmitry Blinov , Chien-Ting Chen , Steven R. Ehlert , Ephraim Gau , Lea Heckmann , Kun Hu , Svetlana G. Jorstad , Philip Kaaret , Pouya M. Kouch , Henric Krawczynski , Elina Lindfors , Frederic Marin , Alan P. Marscher , Ioannis Myserlis , Stephen L. O'Dell , Luigi Pacciani , David Paneque , Matteo Perri , Simonetta Puccetti , M. Lynne Saade , Fabrizio Tavecchio , Allyn F. Tennant , Efthalia Traianou , Martin C. Weisskopf , Kinwah Wu , Francisco Jose Aceituno , Giacomo Bonnoli , Victor Casanova , Gabriel Emery , Juan Escudero , Daniel Morcuende , Jorge Otero-Santos , Alfredo Sota , Vilppu Piirola , George A. Borman , Evgenia N. Kopatskaya , Elena G. Larionova , Daria A. Morozova , Ekaterina V. Shishkina , Sergey S. Savchenko , Andrey A. Vasilyev , Tatiana S. Grishina , Ivan S. Troitskiy , Alexey V. Zhovtan , Callum McCall , Helen E. Jermak , Iain A. Steele , Rumen Bachev , Anton Strigachev , Ryo Imazawa , Mahito Sasada , Yasushi Fukazawa , Koji S. Kawabata , Makoto Uemura , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Tatsuya Nakaoka , Sumie Tochihara , Takahiro Akai , Hiroshi Akitaya , Andrei V. Berdyugin , Masato Kagitani , Vadim Kravtsov , Juri Poutanen , Takeshi Sakanoi , Diego Alvarez-Ortega , Carolina Casadio , Sincheol Kang , Sang-Sung Lee , Sanghyun Kim , Whee Yeon Cheong , Hyeon-Woo Jeong , Chanwoo Song , Shan Li , Myeong-Seok Nam , Mark Gurwell , Garrett Keating , Ramprasad Rao , Emmanouil Angelakis , Alexander Kraus , Petra Benke , Lena Debbrecht , Julia Eich , Florian Eppel , Andrea Gokus , Steven Hammerich , Jonas Hessdorfer , Matthias Kadler , Dana Kirchner , Georgios Filippos Paraschos , Florian Rosch , Wladislaw Schulga

Inhomogeneities can influence the polarisation emerging from a synchrotron source. However, it is shown that the frequency distribution of circular polarisation is only marginally affected, although its magnitude may change substantially.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-13 C. -I. Bjornsson