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The turbulent ionized interstellar medium diffracts radio waves and makes them propagate in multiple paths. The pulse-broadening observed at low frequencies results from the scattering effect of interstellar clouds of ionized gas. During…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-18 W. C. Jing , J. L. Han , C. Wang , P. F. Wang , T. Wang , N. N. Cai , J. Xu , Z. L. Yang , D. J. Zhou , Yi Yan , W. Q. Su , X. Y. Gao , L. Xie

Observations of the five confirmed optical pulsars indicate that the peak emission scales according to the magnetic field strength at the light cylinder. To the accuracy that such low number allows we show that this gives further…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Shearer , A. Golden

The Magellanic Clouds are the only external galaxies known to host radio pulsars. The dispersion and rotation measures of pulsars in the Clouds can aid in understanding their structure, and studies of the pulsars themselves can point to…

Characterizing the shape and evolution of pulsar radio emission beams is important for understanding the observed emission. The various attempts by earlier workers investigating beam shapes have resulted in widely different conclusions.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Mitra , A. A. Deshpande

A sample of 129 unresolved radio sources with ultrahigh linear polarization (>30 per cent) has been selected from the NRAO VLA Sky Survey. Such high average linear polarization is unusual in extragalactic sources. Higher resolution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-09-21 H. Shi , H. Liang , J. L. Han , R. W. Hunstead

We have observed a total of 67 pulsars at five frequencies ranging from 243 to 3100 MHz. Observations at the lower frequencies were made at the Giant Metre Wave Telescope in India and those at higher frequencies at the Parkes Telescope in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Simon Johnston , Aris Karastergiou , Dipanjan Mitra , Yashwant Gupta

We discuss the rotation of the linear polarization plane and the production of circular polarization generated by a pseudoscalar field acting as dark matter. We compute analytically and numerically the propagation of the Stokes parameters…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Fabio Finelli , Matteo Galaverni

We report on the results of an image-based search for pulsar candidates toward the Galactic bulge. We used mosaic images from the MeerKAT radio telescope, that were taken as part of a 173 deg**2 survey of the bulge and Galactic center of…

The polarization properties of radio sources at very low frequencies (<200 MHz) have not been widely measured, but the new generation of low-frequency radio telescopes, including the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR: a Square Kilometre Array Low…

Pulsars radiate radio signals when they rotate. However, some old pulsars often stop radiating for some periods. The underlying mechanism remains unknown, while the magnetosphere during nulling phases is hard to probe due to the absence of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-21 X. Chen , Y. Yan , J. L. Han , C. Wang , P. F. Wang , W. C. Jing , K. J. Lee , B. Zhang , R. X. Xu , T. Wang , Z. L. Yang , W. Q. Su , N. N. Cai , W. Y. Wang , G. J. Qiao , J. Xu , D. J. Zhou

We present a pipeline that allows recovering reliable information for all four Stokes parameters with high accuracy. Its novelty relies on the treatment of the instrumental effects already prior to the computation of the Stokes parameters…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-10 I. Myserlis , E. Angelakis , A. Kraus , C. A. Liontas , N. Marchili , M. F. Aller , H. D. Aller , V. Karamanavis , L. Fuhrmann , T. P. Krichbaum , J. A. Zensus

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 core component width in normal pulsars, with periods ($P$) $>$ 0.1 seconds, measured at the half-power point at 1 GHz has a lower boundary line (LBL) which closely follows the $P^{-0.5}$ scaling relation. This result is of fundamental…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-28 Anna Skrzypczak , Rahul Basu , Dipanjan Mitra , George I. Melikidze , Krzysztof Maciesiak , Olga Koralewska , Alexandros Filothodoros

Motivated by recent results on the location of the radio emission in pulsar magnetospheres, we have developed a model which can account for the large diversity found in the average profile shapes of pulsars. At the centre of our model lies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Karastergiou , S. Johnston

We present the largest ever sample of radio polarization properties for $z>4$ sources, with 14 sources having significant polarization detections. Using wideband data from the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array, we obtained the rest-frame…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-07 Tessa Vernstrom , Bryan Gaensler , Valentina Vacca , Jamie Farnes , Marijke Haverkorn , Shane O'Sullivan

Broadband radio waves emitted from pulsars are distorted and delayed as they propagate toward the Earth due to interactions with the free electrons that compose the interstellar medium, with lower radio frequencies being more impacted than…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-12 Olivia Young , Michael Lam

We present strong observational evidence for a relationship between the direction of a pulsar's motion and its rotation axis. We show carefully calibrated polarization data for 25 pulsars, 20 of which display linearly polarized emission…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Simon Johnston , G. Hobbs , S. Vigeland , M. Kramer , J. M. Weisberg , A. G. Lyne

The polarization of the cosmic microwave background radiation will have a distribution of singularities and anti-singularities, points where the polarization vanishes for topological reasons. The statistics of polarization singularities…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Dragan Huterer , Tanmay Vachaspati

The linear polarisation of the Crab pulsar and its close environment was derived from observations with the high-speed photo-polarimeter OPTIMA at the 2.56-m Nordic Optical Telescope in the optical spectral range (400 - 750 nm). Time…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-12 Agnieszka Słowikowska , Gottfried Kanbach , Michael Kramer , Alexander Stefanescu

$\gamma$-ray radiation from pulsars is usually thought to be mostly produced by the synchro-curvature losses of accelerated particles. Here we present a systematic study of all currently reported, good-quality Fermi-LAT pulsar spectral…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-07-16 Daniele Viganò , Diego F. Torres , Jonatan Martín