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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

Pulsars are neutron stars, stellar corpses left over after supernova explosions of stars about ten times as massive as our Sun, with densities comparable to the atomic nucleus', spinning with periods from few milliseconds up to few seconds,…

Neutrino oscillations, biased by the magnetic field, alter the shape of the neutrinosphere in a cooling protoneutron star emerging from the supernova collapse. The resulting anisotropy in the momentum of outgoing neutrinos can be the origin…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Alexander Kusenko , Gino Segre

We study the effect of pulsar rotation on timing of binary pulsars, with particular emphasis on the double pulsar system J0737-3039. Special relativistic aberration due to the orbital motion of pulsar changes both the longitude and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Roman R. Rafikov , Dong Lai

The magnetospheres around neutron stars should be very particular because of their strong magnetic field and rapid rotation. A study of the pulsar magnetospheres is of a crucial importance since it is the key issue to understand how energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-27 Vadim Urpin

Pulsars have traditionally been used for research into fundamental physics and astronomy. In this paper, we investigate the expanding applications of radio pulsars in societal and industrial domains beyond their conventional scientific…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-11 D. Kaur , G. Hobbs , A. Zic , J. R. Dawson , J. Morgan , W. Ling , S. Camtepe , J. Pieprzyk , M. C. M. Cheung

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

We consider the currently observed spin distributions of various types of neutron stars, including isolated and binary radio millisecond pulsars in the Galactic plane and globular cluster system as well as neutron stars in low-mass X-ray…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 J. W. T. Hessels

It is a pity that the real state of matter in pulsar-like stars is still not determined confidently because of the uncertainty about cold matter at supranuclear density, even 40 years after the discovery of pulsar. Nuclear matter (related…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Renxin Xu

The study of pulsar glitch phenomena serves as a valuable probe into the dynamic properties of matter under extreme high-density conditions, offering insights into the physics within neutron stars. Providing theoretical explanations for the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-07 Pei-Xin Zhu , Xiao-Ping Zheng

Millisecond pulsars represent an evolutionarily distinct group among rotation-powered pulsars. Outside the radio band, the soft X-ray range ($\sim 0.1$--10 keV) is most suitable for studying radiative mechanisms operating in these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Vyacheslav E. Zavlin

This review describes the observational properties of radio pulsars, fast rotating neutron stars, emitting radio waves. After the introduction we give a list of milestones in pulsar research. The following chapters concentrate on pulsar…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-29 John H. Seiradakis , Richard Wielebinski

Binary and Millisecond pulsars have a great deal to teach us about stellar evolution and are invaluable tools for tests of relativistic theories of gravity. Our understanding of these objects has been transformed by large-scale surveys that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Matthew Bailes

The stable oscillations of pulsating stars can serve as accurate timepieces, which may be monitored for the influence of exoplanets. An external companion gravitationally tugs the host star, causing periodic changes in pulsation arrival…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-06 J. J. Hermes

Pulsars are rapidly rotating neutron stars emitting intense electromagnetic radiation that is detected on Earth as regular and precisely timed pulses. By exploiting their extreme regularity and comparing the real arrival times with a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-20 Amodio Carleo , Bilel Ben-Salem

I describe ongoing work on development of Bayesian methods for exploring periodically varying phenomena in astronomy, addressing two classes of sources: pulsars, and extrasolar planets (exoplanets). For pulsars, the methods aim to detect…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-27 Thomas J. Loredo

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

Polarization measurements provide strong constraints on models for emission from rotation-powered pulsars. We present multiwavelength polarization predictions showing that measurements over a range of frequencies can be particularly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-24 Alice K. Harding , Constantinos Kalapotharakos

Pulsars are famous for their rotational stability. Most of them steadily spin down and display a highly repetitive pulse shape. But some pulsars experience timing irregularities such as nulling, intermittency, mode changing and timing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-23 Lev Arzamasskiy , Alexander Philippov , Alexander Tchekhovskoy

Pulsars, the cosmic lighthouses, are strongly self-gravitating objects with core densities significantly exceeding nuclear density. Since the discovery of the Hulse--Taylor pulsar 50 years ago, binary pulsar studies have delivered numerous…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-15 Huanchen Hu