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The discovery of millisecond pulsars switching between states powered either by the rotation of their magnetic field or by the accretion of matter, has recently proved the tight link shared by millisecond radio pulsars and neutron stars in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-04-28 A. Papitto , D. F. Torres

The pulsar magnetic inclination angle is a key parameter for pulsar physics. It influences the observable properties of pulsars, such as the pulse beam width, braking index, polarisation, and emission geometry. In this study, we give a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-24 Biao-Peng Li , Wen-Qi Ma , Zhi-Fu Gao

Transitional millisecond pulsars are systems that alternate between an accreting low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) state, and a non-accreting radio pulsar state. When at the LMXB state, their X-ray and optical light curves show rapid flares and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-27 Pasi Hakala , Jari J. E. Kajava

Observations of the binary pulsar PSR J1141-6545 using the Parkes radio telescope over 9.3 years show clear time-variations in pulse width, shape and polarization. We interpret these variations in terms of relativistic precession of the…

In order to study precession and interstellar magnetic field variations, we measured the polarized position angle of 81 pulsars at several-month intervals for four years. We show that the uncertainties in a single-epoch measurement of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-08-04 Joel M. Weisberg , John E. Everett , James M. Cordes , Justin J. Morgan , Drew G. Brisbin

The young pulsar PSR B1828-11 has long been known to show correlated shape and spin-down changes with timescales of roughly 500 and 250 days, perhaps associated with large-scale magnetospheric switching. Here we present multi-hour…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-13 I. H. Stairs , A. G. Lyne , M. Kramer , B. W. Stappers , J. van Leeuwen , A. Tung , R. N Manchester , G. B. Hobbs , D. R. Lorimer , A. Melatos

PSR J1141$-$6545 is a precessing binary pulsar that has the rare potential to reveal the two-dimensional structure of a non-recycled pulsar emission cone. It has undergone $\sim 25 \deg$ of relativistic spin precession in the $\sim18$ years…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-20 V. Venkatraman Krishnan , M. Bailes , W. van Straten , E. F. Keane , M. Kramer , N. D. R. Bhat , C. Flynn , S. Osłowski

We present a method for the detection and characterization of random changes in the flux from $\gamma$-ray pulsars on sub-hour timescales, much shorter than variations that can be accessed using direct flux measurements. Flux variations are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-26 Matthew Kerr

In binary radio pulsar system J0737-3039, slow pulsar B shows orbital modulations of intensity, being especially bright at two short orbital phases. We propose that these modulations are due to distortion of pulsar B magnetosphere by pulsar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Maxim Lyutikov

Pulsars are the most numerous class of Galactic gamma-ray sources detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). Young pulsars occasionally experience sudden timing discontinuities called glitches, characterized by rapid changes in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-08 Giovanni Cozzolongo , Alessio Fiori , Massimiliano Razzano , Pablo M. Saz Parkinson

The shape and polarisation properties of the radio pulse profiles of radio-loud magnetars provide a unique opportunity to investigate their magnetospheric properties. Gaussian Process Regression analysis was used to investigate the…

Some of the most energetic pulsars exhibit rotation-modulated gamma-ray emission in the $0.1$ to $100$ GeV band. The luminosity of this emission is typically $0.1\text{-}10\%$ of the pulsar spin-down power (gamma-ray efficiency), implying…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-20 Hayk Hakobyan , Alexander Philippov , Anatoly Spitkovsky

The spin-down rate of PSR J1023+0038, one of the three confirmed transitional millisecond pulsars, was measured in both radio pulsar (RMSP) and X-ray pulsar (LMXB) states. The spin-down rate in the LMXB state is only about 27 % greater than…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-13 Unal Ertan

The presence of a companion wind in neutron star binary systems can form a contact discontinuity well within the pulsar's light cylinder, effectively creating a waveguide that confines the pulsar's electromagnetic fields and significantly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-09 Yici Zhong , Anatoly Spitkovsky , Jens F. Mahlmann , Hayk Hakobyan

We present the evolution of the radio emission from the 2.8-s pulsar of the double pulsar system PSR J0737-3039A/B. We provide an update on the Burgay et al. (2005) analysis by describing the changes in the pulse profile and flux density…

An accretion disk around a rotating magnetized star is subjected to magnetic torques which induce disk warping and precession. These torques arise from interactions between the stellar field and the induced surface currents on the disk.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Akiko Shirakawa , Dong Lai

We undertake the first targeted search at 1.5 GHz for radio emission from the variable $\gamma$-ray pulsar PSR J2021$+$4026. This radio-quiet pulsar assumes one of two stable $\gamma$-ray emission states, between which it transitions on a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-24 B. Shaw , B. W. Stappers , P. Weltevrede , C. A. Jordan , M. B. Mickaliger , A. G. Lyne

The recently discovered rotationally powered pulsar PSR J1640-4631 is the first to have a braking index measured, with high enough precision, that is greater than three. An inclined magnetic rotator in vacuum or plasma would be subject not…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-25 Kazım Yavuz Ekşi , Ceyhun Andaç , Sercan Çıkıntoğlu , Erbil Gügercinoğlu , Armin Vahdat Motlagh , Bülent Kızıltan

We apply theoretical spin-down models of magnetospheric evolution and magnetic field decay to simulate the possible evolution of PSR J0250+5854, which is the slowest-spinning radio pulsar detected to date. Considering the alignment of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-29 F. F. Kou , H. Tong , R. X. Xu , X. Zhou

The outburst and spin-down glitch of magnetars are modeled from the magnetospheric point of view. We try to discuss the following four questions: (1) Which pulsar on the period and peirod-derivative diagram are more likely to show magnetar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-05 H. Tong , L. Huang