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We consider propagation of polarization in the inner parts of pair-symmetric magnetar winds, close to the light cylinder. Pair plasmas in magnetic field is birefringent, a $\propto B^2$ effect. As a result, such plasmas work as phase…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-06 Maxim Lyutikov

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are a type of highly-polarized, millisecond-duration electromagnetic pulses in the radio band, which are mostly produced at cosmological distances. These properties provide a natural laboratory for testing the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-10 Yu-Chen Huang , Zi-Gao Dai

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are observed to be highly polarized. Most have high linear polarization but a small fraction show significant circular polarization. We systematically investigate a variety of polarization mechanisms of FRBs within…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-19 Yuanhong Qu , Bing Zhang

Recently, some fast radio bursts (FRBs) have been reported to exhibit complex and diverse variations in Faraday rotation measurements (RM) and polarization, suggesting that dynamically evolving magnetization environments may surround them.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-29 Zhao-Yang Xia , Yuan-Pei Yang , Qiao-Chu Li , Fa-Yin Wang , Bo-Yang Liu , Zi-Gao Dai

Frequency-dependent polarization properties provide crucial insights into the radiation mechanisms and magnetic environments of fast radio bursts (FRBs). We explore an analytical solution of radiative transfer of the polarization properties…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-11 Wei-Yang Wang , Xiaohui Liu , Dongzi Li , Bing Zhang , Chen-Hui Niu , Jifeng Liu , Renxin Xu , Weiwei Zhu , Kejia Lee

The study of impulsive astrophysical radio emission makes it possible to probe the intervening plasma between the emission source and the Earth. In cold electron-ion plasmas, the circular propagating wave modes primarily alter the linear…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-17 Pravir Kumar , Ryan M. Shannon , Marcus E. Lower , Adam T. Deller , J. Xavier Prochaska

Recent polarization measurements of fast radio bursts (FRBs) provide new insights on these enigmatic sources. We show that the nearly 100% linear polarization and small variation of the polarization position angles (PAs) of multiple bursts…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-04 Wenbin Lu , Pawan Kumar , Ramesh Narayan

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are brief, intense flashes of radio waves from unidentified extragalactic sources. Polarized FRBs originate in highly magnetized environments. We report observations of the repeating FRB 20190520B spanning seventeen…

Fast radio bursts (FRBs), highly polarized, mostly have a nearly constant polarization position angle (PA) during each burst. Their PAs are observed to vary from burst to burst, with the statistical properties remaining stable across…

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 magnetosphere of a pulsar is composed of relativistic plasmas streaming along the magnetic field lines and corotating with the pulsar. We study the intrinsic Faraday rotation in the pulsar magnetosphere by critically examining the wave…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Chen Wang , Jinlin Han , Dong Lai

Fast radio bursts (FRBs), typically highly polarized, usually have a nearly constant polarization position angle (PA) during each burst. Some bursts show significant PA variations, and one of them was claimed to have a PA variation pattern…

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are short, intense extragalactic radio bursts of unknown origin. Recent polarimetric studies have shown that a noticeable fraction of the repeating FRBs display irregular, short-time variations of the Faraday…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-05 Dongzi Li , Anna Bilous , Scott Ransom , Robert Main , Yuan-Pei Yang

Faraday rotation is a valuable tool for detecting magnetic fields. Here the technique is considered in relation to wind-blow bubbles. In the context of spherical winds with azimuthal or split monopole stellar magnetic field geometries, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 Richard Ignace , Nickolas Pingel

Nonlinear effects are crucial for the propagation of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) near the source. We study the filamentation of FRBs in the relativistic winds of magnetars, which are commonly invoked as the most natural FRB progenitors. As a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-08 Emanuele Sobacchi , Yuri Lyubarsky , Andrei M. Beloborodov , Lorenzo Sironi , Masanori Iwamoto

Faraday Rotation-Conversion is the simultaneous rotation of all three Stokes polarization parameters $Q$, $U$, $V$ as an electromagnetic wave propagates through a magnetized plasma. In this regime the Faraday plasma screen is characterized…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-15 Andrei Gruzinov , Yuri Levin

Fast radio bursts (FRBs), thought to originate from magnetars, exhibit diverse polarization properties that constrain their emission physics and local magneto-ionic environments. The polarization position angle (PPA) is particularly…

The extreme, time-variable Faraday rotation observed in the repeating fast radio burst (FRB) 121102 and its associated persistent synchrotron source demonstrates that some FRBs originate in dense, dynamic and possibly relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-27 H. K. Vedantham , V. Ravi

Fast Radio Bursts are bright, unresolved, non-repeating, broadband, millisecond flashes, found primarily at high Galactic latitudes, with dispersion measures much larger than expected for a Galactic source. The inferred all-sky burst rate…

Growing evidence indicates that some fast radio bursts (FRBs) reside in dense, magneto-ionic environments where extrinsic propagation effects can substantially reshape the observed signal. Within a 1D Gaussian plasma-lens framework, we show…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-19 R. N. Li , Y. B. Wang , S. X. Yi , X. Zhou , F. Y. Wang
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