English
Related papers

Related papers: Pulsar current sheet Cerenkov radiation

200 papers

Although the physical origin of fast radio bursts (FRBs) remains unknown, magnetars are the most likely candidates. The polarization properties of FRBs offer crucial insights into their origins and radiation mechanisms. Significant circular…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-09 Z. Y. Zhao , F. Y. Wang

The five-component profile of the 2.7-ms pulsar J0337+1715 appears to exhibit the best example to date of a core/double-cone emission-beam structure in a millisecond pulsar (MSP). Moreover, three other MSPs, the Binary Pulsar B1913+16,…

A number of possible pulsar radio emission mechanisms are based on streaming instabilities in relativistically hot electron-positron pair plasmas. At saturation the unstable waves can form, in principle, stable solitary waves which could…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-20 Jan Benáček , Patricio A. Muñoz , Alina C. Manthei , Jörg Büchner

It is shown that induced Raman scattering of electromagnetic waves in the strongly magnetized electron-positron plasma of pulsar magnetosphere may be important for wave propagation and as an effective saturation mechanism for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Maxim Lyutikov

Some of the most energetic pulsars exhibit rotation-modulated gamma-ray emission in the $0.1$ to $100$ GeV band. The luminosity of this emission is typically $0.1\text{-}10\%$ of the pulsar spin-down power (gamma-ray efficiency), implying…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-20 Hayk Hakobyan , Alexander Philippov , Anatoly Spitkovsky

Recent studies have shown possible connections between highly magnetized neutron stars ("magnetars"), whose X-ray emission is too bright to be powered by rotational energy, and ordinary radio pulsars. In addition to the magnetar SGR…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-12 J. Dexter , N. Degenaar , M. Kerr , A. Deller , J. Deneva , P. Lazarus , M. Kramer , D. Champion , R. Karuppusamy

Magnetospheres of pulsars are thought to be filled with plasma, and variations in plasma supply can affect both pulsar emission properties and spin-down rates. A number of recently discovered "intermittent" pulsars switch between two…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Jason Li , Anatoly Spitkovsky , Alexander Tchekhovskoy

Plasma-mediated interaction between astrophysical objects can play an important role and produce electromagnetic radiation in various binary systems, ranging from planet-moon and star-planet systems to binary compact objects. We perform 3D…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-20 Nicholas Corso , Dong Lai

The exact solution of radiation problem of a spin wave travelling in an antiferromagnetic (AFM) plate was found. The spin wave with in-plane oscillations of antiferromagnetism vector was considered. In this case the magnetization vector is…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. A. Zhmudsky

It is argued that the polar gap and flux tube in the pulsar magnetosphere act as a resonant cavity/waveguide system which is excited by oscillations in the primary beam current and accelerating potential. The modes will be converted,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Matthew D. T. Young

Pulsars show irregularities in their pulsed radio emission that originate from propagation effects and the intrinsic activity of the source. In this work, we investigate the role played by magnetic reconnection and the formation of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-18 I. Ceyhun Andaç , Benoît Cerutti , Guillaume Dubus , K. Yavuz Ekşi

Plasma waves in the magnetosphere scatter electrons, causing them to precipitate into Earth's atmosphere, imparting their temporal characteristics to diffuse auroras. In a case study of conjugate radar and satellite observations, we…

A number of disparate observational and theoretical pieces of evidence indicate that, contrary to the conventional wisdom, neutron stars' closed field lines are populated by dense, hot plasma and may be responsible for producing some radio…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Maxim Lyutikov

We apply a theory of wave propagation through a turbulent medium to the scattering of radio waves in pulsar magnetospheres. We find that under conditions of strong density modulation the effects of magnetospheric scintillations in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Maxim Lyutikov , Anuj Parikh

We explore the multiwavelength radiation properties of the light curves and energy spectra in the dissipative magnetospheres of pulsars. The dissipative magnetospheres are simulated by the pseudo-spectral method with the combined force-free…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-12 Xiongbang Yang , Gang Cao

We investigate the Cherenkov radiation by a charge uniformly moving inside a dielectric cylindrical channel in a homogeneous medium. The expressions for the Fourier components of the electric and magnetic fields are derived by using the…

Optics · Physics 2024-06-21 A. A. Saharian , S. B. Dabagov , H. F. Khachatryan , L. Sh. Grigoryan

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 consider force-free plasma waves launched by the motion of conducting material through a magnetic field. We develop a spacetime-covariant formalism for perturbations of a uniform magnetic field and show how the transverse motion of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-29 Samuel E. Gralla , Peter Zimmerman

Magnetars younger than one century are expected to be hyper active. Besides winds powered by rotation they generate frequent magnetic flares, which launch powerful blast waves into the wind. These internal shocks act as masers producing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-01 Andrei M. Beloborodov

It has been argued in previous papers that an ion-proton plasma is formed at the polar caps of neutron stars with positive polar-cap corotational charge density. The present paper does not offer a theory of the development of turbulence…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-09 P B Jones