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Low-frequency polarisation observations of pulsars, facilitated by next-generation radio telescopes, provide powerful probes of astrophysical plasmas that span many orders of magnitude in magnetic field strength and scale: from pulsar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-22 C. Sobey , the LOFAR , MWA collaborations

We develop a new method for studying the Galactic magnetic field along the spiral arms using pulsar Faraday rotation measures (RMs). Our new technique accounts for the dot-product nature of Faraday rotation and also splits the associated…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-11 Alice P. Curtin , Joel M. Weisberg , Joanna M. Rankin

We report here on the timing of 597 pulsars over the last four years with the MeerKAT telescope. We provide Times-of-Arrival, pulsar ephemeris files and per-epoch measurements of the flux density, dispersion measure (DM) and rotation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-03 M. J. Keith , S. Johnston , A. Karastergiou , P. Weltevrede , M. E. Lower , A. Basu , B. Posselt , L. S. Oswald , A. Parthasarathy , A. D. Cameron , M. Serylak , S. Buchner

We present the measurements of Faraday rotation for 477 pulsars observed by the Parkes 64-m radio telescope and the Green Bank 100-m radio telescope. Using these results along with previous measurements for pulsars and extra-galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-31 J. L. Han , R. N. Manchester , W. van Straten , P. Demorest

Using a new, expanded compilation of extragalactic source Faraday rotation measures (RM) we investigate the broad underlying magnetic structure of the Galactic disk at latitudes $|b|$ $\lesssim 15^{\circ}$ over all longitudes $l$, where our…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 Philipp P. Kronberg , Katherine J. Newton-McGee

We present pulse width measurements for a sample of radio pulsars observed with the MeerKAT telescope as part of the Thousand-Pulsar-Array (TPA) programme in the MeerTime project. For a centre frequency of 1284 MHz, we obtain 762 $W_{10}$…

Pulsars can act as an excellent probe of the Milky Way magnetic field. The average strength of the Galactic magnetic field component parallel to the line of sight can be estimated as $\langle B_\parallel \rangle = 1.232 \,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-27 Amit Seta , Christoph Federrath

A number of pulsars are known to have profile evolution on timescales of months, often correlated with spin-down rate changes. Here, we present the first result from 3 years of monitoring observations from MeerKAT as part of the Thousand…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-15 A. Basu , P. Weltevrede , M. J. Keith , S. Johnston , A. Karastergiou , L. S. Oswald , B. Posselt , X. Song , A. D. Cameron

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST) is the most sensitive radio telescope for pulsar observations. We make polarimetric measurements of a large number of faint and distant pulsars using the FAST. We present the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-01 Jun Xu , Jinlin Han , Pengfei Wang , Yi Yan

We present a suite of models of the coherent magnetic field of the Galaxy (GMF) based on new divergence-free parametric functions describing the global structure of the field. The model parameters are fit to the latest full-sky Faraday…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-14 Michael Unger , Glennys R. Farrar

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

Radio synchrotron emission, its polarization and its Faraday rotation are powerful tools to study the strength and structure of interstellar magnetic fields. The total intensity traces the strength and distribution of total magnetic fields.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Rainer Beck

The origin of magnetic fields in the Universe is an open problem in astrophysics and fundamental physics. Polarization observations with the forthcoming large radio telescopes will open a new era in the observation of magnetic fields and…

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

The strength of the total magnetic field in our Milky Way from radio Zeeman and synchrotron measurements is about 6 muG near the Sun and several mG in dense clouds, pulsar wind nebulae, and filaments near the Galactic Center. Diffuse…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Rainer Beck

We made use of the two latest sets of Rotational Measures (RMs) of extra-galactic radio sources, namely the NRAO VLA Sky Survey otation Measures Catalogue, and a compilation by Kronberg&Newton-McGee(2011), to infer the global structure of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 M. S. Pshirkov , P. G. Tinyakov , P. P. Kronberg , K. J. Newton-McGee

We report on the follow-up observations of circularly polarized sources identified in the MeerKAT image-based survey of the Galactic bulge. Using the Parkes radio telescope, we observed sixteen circularly polarized sources with the UWL…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-17 Rahul Sengar , Akash Anumarlapudi , David L. Kaplan , Dale A. Frail , Scott D. Hyman , Emil Polisensky

We know that magnetic fields are pervasive across all scales in the Universe and over all of cosmic time and yet our understanding of many of the properties of magnetic fields is still limited. We do not yet know when, where or how the…

We present observations of 35 high spin-down energy radio pulsars using the MeerKAT telescope. Polarisation profiles and associated parameters are also presented. We derive the geometry for a selection of pulsars which show interpulse…

The Milky Way is one of the very few spiral galaxies known to host large-scale magnetic field reversals. The existence of the field reversal in the first Galactic quadrant near the Sagittarius spiral arm has been well established, yet…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-29 Yik Ki Ma , S. A. Mao , A. Ordog , J. C. Brown