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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

We present a comprehensive investigation of the radio polarization properties within the theory of natural electromagnetic wave modes in pulsar magnetospheres. Taking into account the curvature of the field lines, aberration effects and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexis von Hoensbroech , Harald Lesch , Thomas Kunzl

We present total-intensity and linear-polarization observations made with the Very Large Array at $\lambda$20 and 6 cm of a representative sample of 42 radio galaxies and quasars selected from the Molonglo Complete Sample. The sources have…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. H. Ishwara-Chandra , D. J. Saikia , V. K. Kapahi , P. J. McCarthy

The perturbations such as rotation and PC--current have been believed to be greatly affecting the pulsar radio emission and polarization. The two effects have not been considered simultaneously in the literature, however, each one of these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 D. Kumar , R. T. Gangadhara

A number of polarization estimators have been developed for a variety of astrophysical applications to compensate measurements of linear polarization for a bias contributed by the instrumental noise. Most derivations of the estimators…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-11 M. M. McKinnon

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

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

At present three pulsars are known which clearly show a strongly increasing degree of circular polarization with frequency. As this is accompanied by a smooth decrease of linear polarization, we investigate, if this observation can be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexis von Hoensbroech , Harald Lesch

We report on full-polarization radio observations of the Perseus cluster (Abell 426) using the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT) at wavelengths from 81-95 cm. We have employed a novel technique, Rotation Measure synthesis…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. G. de Bruyn , M. A. Brentjens

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

Qiao and his collaborators recently proposed an inverse Compton Scattering (ICS) model to explain radio emission of pulsars. In this paper, we investigate the polarization properties of pulsar emission in the model. First of all, using the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. X. Xu , J. F. Liu , J. L. Han , G. J. Qiao

We consider the polarization behaviour of radio waves propagating through an ultrarelativistic highly magnetized electron-positron plasma in a pulsar magnetosphere. The rotation of magnetosphere gives rise to the wave mode coupling in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Y. E. Lyubarskii , S. A. Petrova

A large sample of pulsars has been observed to study their subpulse modulation at an observing wavelength (when achievable) of both 21 and 92 cm using the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope. In this paper we present the 92-cm data and a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Weltevrede , B. W. Stappers , R. T. Edwards

The measurement of radio polarization may be regarded as a three-dimensional statistical problem because the large photon densities at radio wavelengths allow the simultaneous detection of the three Stokes parameters which completely…

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

We present the largest single survey to date of average profiles of radio pulsars, observed and processed using the same telescope and data reduction software. Specifically, we present measurements for 1170 pulsars, observed by the Thousand…

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

We have made polarimetric monitoring observations of millisecond pulsars visible from the northern hemisphere at 1410 MHz. Their emission properties are compared with those of normal pulsars. Although we demonstrated in paper I that…

We present the first results from a programme of multi-frequency simultaneous single pulse observations carried out as part of the European Pulsar Network. We detail the main data analysis methods and apply them to simultaneous observations…

The understanding of pulsar radio emission demands a close look at all regions of the huge parameter space present for pulsar observations. In this review we concentrate on the space given by the range of observed pulse periods, spanning…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Kramer

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