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We review our high-time-resolution radio observations of the Crab pulsar and compare our data to a variety of models for the emission physics. The Main Pulse and the Low-Frequency Interpulse come from regions somewhere in the high-altitude…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-22 J. A. Eilek , T. H. Hankins

Radio observations from normal pulsars indicate that the coherent radio emission is excited by curvature radiation from charge bunches. In this review we provide a systematic description of the various observational constraints on the radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-03 Dipanjan Mitra , Rahul Basu , George I Melikizde

We develop a model for subpulse separation period, $P_2$, taking into account both the apparent motion of the visible point as a function of pulsar phase, $\psi$, and the possibility of abrupt jumps between different rotation states in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-06 R. Yuen , D. B. Melrose , M. A. Samsuddin , Z. Y. Tu , X. H. Han

Super-sensitive observations of bright pulsars by the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) have revealed weak radio emission continuously emerged in the rotation phases between the main pulse and interpulse of an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-10 P. F. Wang , J. L. Han

The phenomenon of subpulse drifting may hold the key to understanding the pulsar emission mechanism. Here, we report on new observations of PSR J0034-0721 (B0031-07), carried out with the Murchison Widefield Array at 185 MHz. We observe…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-08 S. J. McSweeney , N. D. R. Bhat , S. E. Tremblay , A. A. Deshpande , S. M. Ord

Observational data imply the presence of superluminal electric currents in pulsar magnetospheres. Such sources are not inconsistent with special relativity; they have already been created in the laboratory. Here we describe the distinctive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-04 Houshang Ardavan , Arzhang Ardavan , Joseph Fasel , John Middleditch , Mario Perez , Andrea Schmidt , John Singleton

The ``drifting'' subpulses exhibited by some radio pulsars have fascinated both observers and theorists for 30 years, and have been widely regarded as one of the most critical and potentially insightful aspects of their emission. Here, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Avinash A. Deshpande , Joanna M. Rankin

In this work, we observe the nearby pulsar, PSR B1929$+$10, using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). We find, for the first time, two new emission components with an extremely weak observed flux density of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-02 Zhengli Wang , Jiguang Lu , Weiyang Wang , Shunshun Cao , Jinchen Jiang , Jiangwei Xu , Kejia Lee , Enwei Liang , Hongguang Wang , Renxin Xu

It is shown that pulsar radio emission can be generated effectively through a streaming motion in the polar-cap regions of a pulsar magnetosphere causing nonresonant growth of waves that can escape directly. As in other beam models, a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Gedalin , E. Gruman , D. B. Melrose

The possibility of a polarization sounding of the pulsar magnetosphere is examined, using intrinsic pulsar emission as a probe signal, for modern radio telescopes operating in the meter and decameter wavelength range. Different models of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 O. M. Ulyanov , A. I. Shevtsova , A. A. Seredkina

We report on an analysis of the drifting subpulses of PSR B0320+39 that indicates a sudden step of ~180 degrees in subpulse phase near the centre of the pulse profile. The phase step, in combination with the attenuation of the periodic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-23 R. T. Edwards , B. W. Stappers , A. G. J. van Leeuwen

The unique and highly unusual drift feature reported for PSR J0815+0939, wherein one component's subpulses drift in the direction opposite of the general trend, is a veritable challenge to pulsar theory. In this paper, we observationally…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-27 Andrzej Szary , Joeri van Leeuwen

A large sample of about two hundred pulsars have been observed to study their subpulse modulation at an observing wavelength of (when achievable) both 21 and 92 cm using the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope. For 57 pulsars drifting…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Patrick Weltevrede , Ben Stappers , R. T. Edwards

The analytical expression for frequency of the maximum of radio emission intensity in pulsars with free electron emission from the stellar surface has been found. We have explained the correlation, known from observations, between the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 V. M. Kontorovich , A. B. Flanchik

Radio pulsar subpulse drifting has been interpreted as rotation of sub-beams (sparks) of pair plasma produced by intermittent breakdowns of an inner vacuum gap above the pulsar polar cap. This model also predicts strong thermal X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bing Zhang , Divas Sanwal , George G. Pavlov

Pulsars are the fast rotating neutron stars with strong magnetic field, that emit over a wide frequency range. In spite of the efforts during 40 years after the discovery of pulsars, the mechanism of their radio emission remains to be…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 V. M. Kontorovich , A. B. Flanchik

The recent revelation that there are correlated period derivative and pulse shape changes in pulsars has dramatically changed our understanding of timing noise as well as the relationship between the radio emission and the properties of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-22 Benjamin Shaw , Benjamin W. Stappers , Paul R. Brook , Aris Karastergiou , Andrew G. Lyne , Patrick Weltevrede

Coherent radio emission in pulsars is excited due to instabilities in a relativistically streaming non-stationary plasma flow, which is generated from sparking discharges in the inner acceleration region (IAR) near the stellar surface. A…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-10 Rahul Basu , Dipanjan Mitra , George I. Melikidze

Over the last fifty years since the discovery of pulsars, our understanding of where and how pulsars emit the radiation we observe has undergone significant revision. The location and mechanisms of high-energy radiation are intimately tied…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-22 Alice K. Harding

We consider the problem of the thermal X-ray radiation from the hot polar cap of radio pulsars showing evidence of \EB subpulse drift in radio band. In our recent Paper I, using the partially screened gap (PSG) model of inner acceleration…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Gil , G. I. Melikidze , B. Zhang