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Polarisation of radio pulsar profiles involves a number of poorly understood, intriguing phenomena, such as the existence of comparable amounts of orthogonal polarisation modes (OPMs), strong distortions of polarisation angle (PA) curves…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-26 J. Dyks

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

Recently, polarization angle (PA) orthogonal jumps over millisecond timescales were discovered from three bursts of a repeating fast radio burst source FRB 20201124A by the FAST telescope. In general, PA jumps can arise from the coherent or…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-03 Yuanhong Qu , Bing Zhang , Pawan Kumar

Because of the corotation, the polarization angle (PA) curve of a pulsar lags the intensity profile by 4r/Rlc rad in pulse phase. I present a simple and short derivation of this delay-radius relation to show that it is not caused by the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Dyks

The radio emission of pulsar B1451-68 contains two polarization modes of similar strength, which produce two clear orthogonal polarization angle tracks. When viewed on a Poincare sphere, the emission is composed of two flux patches that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-16 J. Dyks , P. Weltevrede , C. Ilie

The Orthogonal Polarization Modes (OPM) have been reported observationally and accepted widely by pulsar researchers. However, no acceptable theory can show the origin of the OPM, which becomes a mystery in pulsar research field. Here a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 R. X. Xu , G. J. Qiao

We report the first detection of polarization angle (PA) orthogonal jumps, a phenomenon previously only observed from radio pulsars, from a fast radio burst (FRB) source FRB 20201124A. We find three cases of orthogonal jumps in over two…

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

Polarization observations of the radio emission from PSR B2016+28 at 1404 MHz reveal properties that are consistent with two, very different, interpretations of the pulsar's viewing geometry. The pulsar's average polarization properties…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Mark M. McKinnon

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

We investigate circular polarization in pulsar radio emission through simultaneous observations of PSR B1133+16 at two frequencies. In particular, we investigate the association of the handedness of circular polarization with the orthogonal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Karastergiou , S. Johnston , M. Kramer

In this paper, we present a study of orthogonal polarization modes in the radio emission of PSR B1133+16, conducted within the frame of simultaneous, multi-frequency, single-pulse observations. Simultaneously observing at two frequencies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Karastergiou , M. Kramer , S. Johnston , A. G. Lyne , N. D. R. Bhat , Y. Gupta

The polarization position angles (PA) of pulsar radio emission occupy a distribution that can be much wider than what is expected from the average linear polarization and the off-pulse instrumental noise. Contrary to our limited…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Mark M. McKinnon

We present here a direct comparison of the polarisation position angle (PA) profiles of 17 pulsars, observed at 1.4 and 3.1 GHz. Absolute PAs are obtained at each frequency, permitting a measurement of the difference in the profiles. By…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 A. Karastergiou , S. Johnston

We analyze and model rapid rotations of polarization orientations in PSR B1919+21's single pulses based on Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope observation data. In more than one-third of B1919+21's single pulses, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-04 Shunshun Cao , Jinchen Jiang , Jaroslaw Dyks , Kejia Lee , Jiguang Lu , Lucy S. Oswald , Weiyang Wang , Renxin Xu

We consider the polarization properties of radiation emitted by relativistic charged particles while moving along the curved magnetic field lines in a pulsar manetosphere. We propose that the radiation emitted by positrons and electrons…

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

Single pulse data on radio pulsar polarization are traditionally presented in the form of two-dimentional greyscale patterns with the pulse longitude and polarization angle (PA) on the horizontal and vertical axis, respectively. Such…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-03 J. Dyks

The population of radio pulsars is observed to demonstrate certain polarization properties not explained by the conventional picture of pulsar polarization, namely frequency evolution of polarization, deviations of the linear polarization…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-02 Lucy Oswald , Aris Karastergiou , Simon Johnston

Despite some success in explaining the observed polarisation angle swing of radio pulsars within the geometric rotating vector model, many deviations from the expected S-like swing are observed. In this paper we provide a simple and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Karastergiou

It is crucial to know the polarization properties of coherent radio waves that escape from pulsar polar caps to calculate the radiative transfer through the magnetosphere and to predict observable radio properties. We describe pair cascades…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-25 Jan Benáček , Axel Jessner , Martin Pohl , Tatiana Rievajová , Lucy S. Oswald
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