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A statistical model of the polarization of pulsar radio emission is used to derive the general statistics of a polarization vector's orientation angles. The theoretical distributions are compared with orientation angle histograms computed…

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

The polarimetry of recent pulsar observations has provided a wealth of observational data with which to test physical theories of emission mechanisms, radiative transfer and even theories that extend beyond the Standard Model. In this work,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-29 Michael Sarkis , Zi-Yan Yuwen , Yin-Zhe Ma , Tao Liu , Jing Ren , Patrick Weltevrede , Xiao Xue

We use data from the MeerTime project on the MeerKAT telescope to ask whether the radio emission properties of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) and slowly rotating, younger pulsars (SPs) are similar or different. We show that the flux density…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-10 A. Karastergiou , S. Johnston , B. Posselt , L. S. Oswald , M. Kramer , P. Weltevrede

We present radio intensity and polarisation profiles of 28 $\gamma$-ray-detected pulsars with the aim of putting constraints on their viewing geometries using data from the Parkes telescope. Constraints are formed both from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 S. C. Rookyard , P. Weltevrede , S. Johnston

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…

Many models for the pulsar radio and $\gamma$-ray emissions have been developed. The tests for these models using observational data are very important. Tests for the pulsar radio emission models using frequency-altitude relation are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. J. Qiao , K. J. Lee , H. G. Wang , R. X. Xu , B. Zhang

The MeerKAT telescope represents an outstanding opportunity for radio pulsar timing science with its unique combination of a large collecting area and aperture efficiency (effective area $\sim$7500 m$^2$), system temperature ($T<20$K), high…

We observed the nearby 100$\%$-duty-cycle radio pulsar B0950+08 using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). We obtained the polarization profile for its entire rotation, which enabled us to investigate its…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-23 Zhengli Wang , Jiguang Lu , Jinchen Jiang , Shunshun Cao , Kejia Lee , Enwei Liang , Lunhua Shang , Renxin Xu , Weiwei Zhu

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are a growing class of gamma-ray emitters. Pulsed gamma-ray signals have been detected from more than 40 MSPs with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). The wider radio beams and more compact magnetospheres of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-06-24 T. J. Johnson , C. Venter , A. K. Harding , L. Guillemot , D. A. Smith , M. Kramer , O. Celik , P. R. den Hartog , E. C. Ferrara , X. Hou , J. Lande , P. S. Ray

The radio polarization properties of the pulsar population are only superficially captured by the conventional picture of pulsar radio emission. We study the broadband polarization of 271 young radio pulsars, focusing particularly on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-16 L. S. Oswald , S. Johnston , A. Karastergiou , S. Dai , M. Kerr , M. E. Lower , R. N. Manchester , R. M. Shannon , C. Sobey , P. Weltevrede

Radiation from X-ray pulsars (XRPs) was expected to be strongly linearly polarized owing to a large difference in their ordinary and extraordinary mode opacities. The launch of IXPE allowed us to check this prediction. IXPE observed a dozen…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-09 Juri Poutanen , Sergey S. Tsygankov , Sofia V. Forsblom

We present a study of single pulses from nine bright northern pulsars to investigate the behaviour of circular polarisation, V. The observations were conducted with the Effelsberg 100-m radio telescope at 1.41 GHz and 4.85 GHz and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Karastergiou , S. Johnston , D. Mitra , A. G. J. van Leeuwen , R. T. Edwards

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

We present a detailed analysis of sub-pulse modulations in nine pulsars which show evidence of changes in sub-pulse drift direction as a function of pulse longitude in the Thousand Pulsar Array single pulse survey with MeerKAT. We confirm…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-02 Haoyue Wang , Michael J. Keith , Patrick Weltevrede , Geoffrey Wright , Bhaswati Bhattacharyya , JuiAn Hsu , Xiaoxi Song

The Large Area Telescope aboard the Fermi spacecraft has detected more than 200 $\gamma$-ray pulsars since its launch in 2008. By concurrently fitting standard geometric model light curves onto Fermi and radio data, researchers have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-30 M. C. Bezuidenhout , C. Venter , A. S. Seyffert , A. K. Harding

We have investigated the radio polarization properties of PSR J1119-6127, a recently discovered young radio pulsar with a large magnetic field. Using pulsar-gated radio imaging data taken at a center frequency of 2496 MHz with the Australia…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Fronefield Crawford , Nathan C. Keim

Since the discovery of pulsars, the rotating-lighthouse model has been the choice of model to explain the radiation pulsation of pulsars. After discovering that some main sequence stars (e.g., CU Virginis) and ultracool dwarfs (e.g., TVLM…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-10 Zhu-Xing Liang , Yi Liang

We measured a sample of 150 pulsar Rotation Measures (RMs) using the 20-cm receiver of the Parkes 64-m radio telescope. 46 of the pulsars in our sample have not had their RM values previously published, whereas 104 pulsar RMs have been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Aristeidis Noutsos , Simon Johnston , Michael Kramer , Aris Karastergiou

We present the polarization profiles of 22 pulsars in the globular cluster 47 Tucanae using observations from the MeerKAT radio telescope at UHF-band (544-1088 MHz) and report precise values of dispersion measure (DM) and rotation measure…

Measuring the magnetic field of the Milky Way reveals the structure and evolution of the galaxy. Pulsar rotation measures (RMs) provide a means to probe this Galactic magnetic field (GMF) in three dimensions. We use the largest…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-17 L. S. Oswald , P. Weltevrede , B. Posselt , S. Johnston , A. Karastergiou , M. E. Lower