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Linearly polarized emission is described, in general, in terms of the Stokes parameters $Q$ and $U$, from which the polarization intensity and polarization angle can be determined. Although the polarization intensity and polarization angle…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-31 C. A. Herron , B. M. Gaensler , G. F. Lewis , N. M. McClure-Griffiths

The polarization position angles (PPA) of time samples with high linear polarization often show two parallel tracks across the pulsar profile that follow the rotating vector model (RVM). This feature support coherent curvature radiation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-22 Dipanjan Mitra , Rahul Basu , George I. Melikidze

The detected high-energy pulsars' population is growing in number, and thus, having agile and physically relevant codes to analyze it consistently is important. Here, we update our existing synchro-curvature radiation model by including a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-21 Daniel Íñiguez-Pascual , Daniele Viganò , Diego F. Torres

Pulsar polarization profiles are critical for understanding their magnetospheric structures and radiation mechanisms. We present polarization profile measurements for 25 pulsars in globular clusters (GCs) from the observation of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-08 Tong Liu , Lin Wang , Zhichen Pan

The gamma-ray emitting binary stellar system LS I +61 303 was observed with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) on two successive orbits over orbital phases of 0.74 to 1.05. Polarization is detected at a significance of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-18 Philip Kaaret , Sudip Chakraborty , Daniel Golonka , Oliver J. Roberts , Ioannis Liodakis , Andrea Gnarini , Steven R. Ehlert , Joel B. Coley

Multifrequency polarimetry is emerging as a powerful probe of blazar jets, especially due to the advent of the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) space observatory. We study the polarization of High-Synchrotron Peaked (HSP) blazars,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-26 F. Bolis , E. Sobacchi , F. Tavecchio

Pulsed emission from gamma-ray pulsars originates inside the magnetosphere, from radiation by charged particles accelerated near the magnetic poles or in the outer gaps. In polar cap models, the high energy spectrum is cut off by magnetic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Alice K. Harding

The spectral characteristics of the pulsed gamma-ray emission from outer-magnetospheric particle accelerators are investigated. Either positrons or electrons are accelerated outwards by the magnetic-field-aligned electric field to emit…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Kouichi Hirotani

Linear polarization at the level of $\sim 1-3%$ has by now been measured in several gamma-ray burst afterglows. Whereas the degree of polarization, $P$, was found to vary in some sources, the position angle, $\theta_p$, was roughly constant…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jonathan Granot , Arieh Konigl

The study of magnetars is of particular relevance since these objects are the only laboratories where the physics in ultra-strong magnetic fields can be directly tested. Until now, spectroscopic and timing measurements at X-ray energies in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Roberto Taverna , Fabio Muleri , Roberto Turolla , Paolo Soffitta , Sergio Fabiani , Luciano Nobili

We report results of a theoretical investigation of polarization of the X-ray emissions induced in charge-exchange collisions of fully stripped solar wind ions C$^{6+}$ and O$^{8+}$ with the heliospheric hydrogen atoms. The polarization of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-14 Marko Gacesa , Hans-Reinhard Müller , Robin Côté , Vasili Kharchenko

Polarimetric measurements, especially if extended at high energy, are expected to provide important insights into the mechanisms underlying the acceleration of relativistic particles in jets. In a previous work we have shown that the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-09 F. Tavecchio , M. Landoni , L. Sironi , P. Coppi

We investigate the spectral features of the emission from a superluminal polarization current whose distribution pattern rotates with an angular frequency $\omega$ and oscillates with an incommensurate frequency $\Omega >\omega$. This type…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. Ardavan , A. Ardavan , J. Singleton

We present spectra of pulsed gamma-ray emission expected from millisecond pulsars within the framework of polar-cap models. The spectra are a superposition of three components due to curvature (CR), synchrotron (SR), and Compton…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tomasz Bulik , Bronislaw Rudak

Templates for polarised emission from Galactic foregrounds at frequencies relevant to Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarisation experiments are obtained by modelling the Galactic Magnetic Field (GMF) on large scales. This work extends…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-21 C. N. Clark , C. R. Contaldi , C. J. MacTavish

Forthcoming radio surveys will include full polarisation information, which can be potentially useful for weak lensing observations. We propose a new method to measure the (integrated) gravitational field between a source and the observer,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-08 Jérémie Francfort , Giulia Cusin , Ruth Durrer

Aims. With the accumulation of polarization data in the gamma-ray burst (GRB) prompt phase, polarization models can be tested. Methods. We predicted the time-integrated polarizations of 37 GRBs with polarization observation. We used their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-22 R. Y. Guan , M. X. Lan

Context. Pulsars are detected as broadband electromagnetic emitters from the radio wavelength up to high and very high energy in the MeV/GeV and sometimes even in the TeV range. Multi-wavelength phase-resolved spectra and light curves offer…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-20 Quentin Giraud , Jérôme Pétri

We have developed a model for the polarization of curvature radiation by taking into account the polar-cap-current induced perturbation on the dipolar magnetic field. We present the effects of the polar cap current on the pulsar radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-09 D. Kumar , R. T. Gangadhara