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The study of pulsars in the three and a half decades since their discovery has highlighted a handful of issues critical to their understanding. To date there is no consensus on the physical mechanism for their radio radio emission, despite…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Matthew G. Baring

Frequency dependence of pulsar linear polarization is investigated by simulations of emission and propagation processes. Linearly polarized waves are generated through curvature radiation by relativistic particles streaming along curved…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 P. F. Wang , C. Wang , J. L. Han

We present the results of a ~230 ks long X-ray observation of the relativistic double-pulsar system PSR J0737-3039 obtained with the XMM-Newton satellite in 2006 October. We confirm the detection in X-rays of pulsed emission from PSR…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-23 A. Pellizzoni , A. Tiengo , A. De Luca , P. Esposito , S. Mereghetti

As one of the paradigm examples to probe into pulsar magnetospheric dynamics, PSR B0943+10 (J0946+0951) manifests representatively, showing mode switch, orthogonal polarization and subpulse drifting, frequently studied below 600 MHz. Here…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-19 Shunshun Cao , Jinchen Jiang , Jaroslaw Dyks , Longfei Hao , Kejia Lee , Zhixuan Li , Jiguang Lu , Zhichen Pan , Weiyang Wang , Zhengli Wang , Jiangwei Xu , Heng Xu , Renxin Xu

Strong magnetic fields, synchrotron emission, and Compton scattering are omnipresent in compact celestial X-ray sources. Emissions in the X-ray energy band are consequently expected to be linearly polarized. X-ray polarimetry provides a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-29 M. Chauvin , H. -G. Florén , M. Friis , M. Jackson , T. Kamae , J. Kataoka , T. Kawano , M. Kiss , V. Mikhalev , T. Mizuno , N. Ohashi , T. Stana , H. Tajima , H. Takahashi , N. Uchida , M. Pearce

We present polarisation observations of five pulsars whose profiles exhibit two distinct emission regions separated by close to 180 degrees of longitude. We fitted the position angle of the linear polarisation using the rotating vector…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 M. J. Keith , S. Johnston , M. Kramer , P. Weltevrede

A significant amount of the millisecond pulsars has been discovered within binary systems. In several such binary systems the masses of the companion stars have been derived allowing to distinguish two classes of objects, called the Black…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-12 W. Bednarek

The subpulse drifting phenomenon in pulsar radio emission is considered within the partially screened inner gap model, in which the sub-Goldreich-Julian thermionic flow of iron ions or electrons coexists with the spark-associated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Janusz Gil , George Melikidze , Bing Zhang

Time-resolved optical and infrared polarimetric observations of black hole and neutron star low-mass X-ray binaries are presented. Data were acquired with the VLT, UKIRT and HIPPO on the SAAO 1.9-m. We find that for some sources in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-19 David M. Russell , Piergiorgio Casella , Rob Fender , Paolo Soleri , Magaretha L. Pretorius , Fraser Lewis , Michiel van der Klis

X-ray binaries hosting a compact object have been among the main targets of the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) since its launch, due to their high brightness in the 2-8 keV energy band. The spectropolarimetric analysis performed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-30 R. Farinelli , A. Waghmare , L. Ducci , A. Santangelo

Transitional millisecond pulsars (tMSPs), which are systems that harbor a pulsar in the throes of the recycling process, have emerged as a new source class since the discovery of the first such system a decade ago. These systems switch…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-22 Amruta Jaodand , Jason W. T. Hessels , Anne M. Archibald

We present a large sample of high-precision, coherently-dedispersed polarization profiles of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) at frequencies between 410 and 1414 MHz. These data include the first polarimetric observations of several of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 I. H. Stairs , S. E. Thorsett , F. Camilo

Polarization is a powerful diagnostic tool to constrain the site of the high-energy pulsed emission and particle acceleration in gamma-ray pulsars. Recent particle-in-cell simulations of pulsar magnetosphere suggest that high-energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-28 Benoît Cerutti , Jérémy Mortier , Alexander A. Philippov

CXOU J110926.4-650224 is a candidate transitional millisecond pulsar (tMSP) with X-ray and radio emission properties reminiscent of those observed in confirmed tMSPs in their X-ray 'subluminous' disc state. We present the results of…

By analyzing the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer data on SAX J1808.4-3658 we show that the X-ray emission in accretion powered millisecond pulsars can be produced by Comptonization in a hot slab (radiative shock) of Thomson optical depth tau~1…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Juri Poutanen

We report results from a multi-mission observational campaign of the transient X-ray pulsar 2S~1417$-$624 during its 2025 outburst, using data from NICER, IXPE, and NuSTAR. Phase-averaged and phase-resolved spectroscopy with NICER and…

We report on an optical photometric and polarimetric campaign on the accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar (AMXP) SAX J1808.4-3658 during its 2019 outburst. The emergence of a low-frequency excess in the spectral energy distribution in the…

Compact binary millisecond pulsars with main-sequence donors, often referred to as "redbacks", constitute the long-sought link between low-mass X-ray binaries and millisecond radio pulsars, and offer a unique probe of the interaction…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Manuel Linares

We report the first detection of X-ray polarization with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer from the X-ray pulsar (XRP) 4U 1954$+$319. The source belongs to an extremely rare class of systems in which a slowly rotating neutron star…

We present near-simultaneous X-ray and optical polarization measurements in the high synchrotron peaked (HSP) blazar Mrk 421. The X-ray polarimetric observations were carried out using {\it Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer} ({\it IXPE})…