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We analyze and model rapid rotations of polarization orientations in PSR B1919+21's single pulses based on Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope observation data. In more than one-third of B1919+21's single pulses, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-04 Shunshun Cao , Jinchen Jiang , Jaroslaw Dyks , Kejia Lee , Jiguang Lu , Lucy S. Oswald , Weiyang Wang , Renxin Xu

The polarization position angles (PPA) of time samples with high linear polarization often show two parallel tracks across the pulsar profile that follow the rotating vector model (RVM). This feature support coherent curvature radiation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-22 Dipanjan Mitra , Rahul Basu , George I. Melikidze

In an earlier paper (Ahuja, et al, 2005), based on simultaneous multi-frequency observations with the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT), we reported the variation of pulsar dispersion measures (DMs) with frequency. A few different…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Amrit Lal Ahuja , Dipanjan Mitra , Yashwant Gupta

We have conducted observations of 22 pulsars at frequencies of 0.7, 1.4 and 3.1 GHz and present their polarization profiles. The observations were carried out for two main purposes. First we compare the orientation of the spin and velocity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Simon Johnston , M. Kramer , A. Karastergiou , G. Hobbs , S. Ord , J. Wallman

In a cycle of papers, starting with the present one, a fundamental possibility of the polarization sounding of a pulsar magnetosphere using pulsar self-radiation as a test signal will be considered. The main idea of such a sounding is based…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-25 O. M. Ulyanov , A. I. Shevtsova , A. O. Skoryk

Polarimetric studies of pulsars at low radio frequencies provide important observational insights into the pulsar emission mechanism and beam models, and probe the properties of the magneto-ionic interstellar medium (ISM). Aperture arrays…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-07 Mengyao Xue , S. M. Ord , S. E. Tremblay , N. D. R. Bhat , C. Sobey , B. W. Meyers , S. J. McSweeney , N. A. Swainston

Radio polarimetry is a three-dimensional statistical problem. The three-dimensional aspect of the problem arises from the Stokes parameters Q, U, and V, which completely describe the polarization of electromagnetic radiation and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 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

A new method of polarimetric calibration is presented in which the instrumental response is derived from regular observations of PSR J0437-4715 based on the assumption that the mean polarized emission from this millisecond pulsar remains…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-14 W. van Straten

We present a census of 100 pulsars, the largest below 100 MHz, including 94 normal pulsars and six millisecond pulsars, with the Long Wavelength Array (LWA). Pulse profiles are detected across a range of frequencies from 26 to 88 MHz,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-31 Pratik Kumar , Greg B. Taylor , Kevin Stovall , Jayce Dowell , Stephen M. White

The recently constructed theory of radio wave propagation in the pulsar magnetosphere outlines the general aspects of the radio light curve and polarization formation. It allows us to describe general properties of mean profiles, such as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-03 A. K. Galishnikova , A. A. Philippov , V. S. Beskin

Recent multi-frequency measurements of pulse widths W50 for the long-period pulsar J0250+5854 by Agar et al provide a unique insight to the emission process owing to its small polar-cap radius. The frequency-dependence of W50 can be simply…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-15 P B Jones

The primary goal of the pulsar timing array projects is to detect ultra-low-frequency gravitational waves. The pulsar data sets are affected by numerous noise processes including varying dispersive delays in the interstellar medium and from…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-11 Ze-xi Niu , George Hobbs , Jing-bo Wang , Shi Dai

Dispersion in the interstellar medium is a well known phenomenon that follows a simple relationship, which has been used to predict the time delay of dispersed radio pulses since the late 1960s. We performed wide-band simultaneous…

We assume that the relativistic sources moving along the dipolar magnetic field lines emit curvature radiation. The beamed emission occurs in the direction of tangents to the field lines, and to receive it, the sight line must align with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. T. Gangadhara

We present radio pulsar emission beam analyses and models with the primary intent of examining pulsar beam geometry and physics over the broadest band of radio frequencies reasonably obtainable. We consider a set of well-studied pulsars…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-26 Timothy Olszanski , Joanna Rankin , Arun Venkataraman , Haley Wahl

The observed spectra of 9 pulsars for which multiwavelength data are available from radio to $X$- or $\gamma$-ray bands (Crab, Vela, Geminga, B0656+14, B1055-52, B1509-58, B1706-44, B1929+10, and B1951+32) are compared with the spectrum of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-08-11 H. Ardavan , A. Ardavan , J. Singleton , J. Fasel , W. Junor , J. Middleditch , M. R. Perez , A. Schmidt , P. Sengupta , P. Volegov

In this study, we report on a detailed single pulse analysis of the radio emission from the pulsar J1401$-$6357 (B1358$-$63) based on data observed with the ultrawideband low-frequency receiver on the Parkes radio telescope. In addition to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-28 J. L. Chen , Z. G. Wen , X. F. Duan , D. L. He , N. Wang , H. G. Wang , R. Yuen , J. P. Yuan , W. M. Yan , Z. Wang , C. B. Lv , H. Wang , S. R. Cui

We present a polarization analysis of PSR J0941$-$39 and PSR J1107$-$5907, which exhibit transitions between being pulsars and rotating radio transients (RRATs), using the ultra-wide bandwidth low-frequency (UWL) receiver on Murriyang, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-10 S. N. Sun , N. Wang , W. M. Yan , S. Q. Wang , J. T. Xie