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NASA's NICER telescope has recently provided evidence for non-dipolar magnetic field structures in rotation-powered millisecond pulsars. These stars are assumed to have gone through a prolonged accretion spin-up phase, begging the question…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-20 Pushpita Das , Oliver Porth , Anna Watts

Recent Chandra and XMM-Newton observations of a number of X-ray ``dim'' pulsating neutron stars revealed quite unexpected features in the emission from these sources. Their soft thermal spectrum, believed to originate directly from the star…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Silvia Zane , Roberto Turolla

We report on the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) monitoring campaign of the 468 Hz accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar IGR J17379-3747. From a detailed spectral and timing analysis of the coherent pulsations we find that…

Binary millisecond pulsars (MSPs) provide several opportunities for research of fundamental physics. However, finding them can be challenging. Several subdwarf B (sdB) binary systems with possible neutron star companions have been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-22 L. C. Oostrum , J. van Leeuwen , Y. Maan , T. Coenen , C. H. Ishwara-Chandra

We study the dependence of the surface magnetic fields of radio pulsars on the choice of Equations of State, pulsar masses and the values of the angle between the magnetic axis and the spin axis of the pulsars within simple dipole model. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-08-26 Manjari Bagchi

The topology of the electromagnetic field around neutron stars severely impacts pulsar physics. While most of the works assume a standard centred dipolar magnetic field model, recently some efforts have been made to explain how inclusion of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-27 Anu Kundu , Jerome Petri

Our previous paper outlined the general aspects of the theory of radio light curve and polarization formation for pulsars. We predicted the one-to-one correspondence between the tilt of the linear polarization position angle of the and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-21 Hayk Hakobyan , Vasily Beskin , Alexander Philippov

We have analyzed the profile of the millisecond pulsar PSR J0437-4715 at 1440 MHz by fitting the Gaussians to pulse components, and identified its 11 emission components. We propose that they form a emission beam with 5 nested cones…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. T. Gangadhara , R. M. C. Thomas

We report the results of new XMM-Newton observations of the middle-aged ($\sim$10$^5$ yr) radio pulsar PSR J1740+1000 carried out in 2017-2018. These long pointings ($\sim$530 ks) show that the non-thermal emission, well described by a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-04 Michela Rigoselli , Sandro Mereghetti , Sara Anzuinelli , Michael Keith , Roberto Taverna , Roberto Turolla , Silvia Zane

The timing follow-up of newly discovered millisecond pulsars (MSPs) is hindered by the larger positional uncertainty (a few tens of arc-minutes) associated with the discovery. In this paper, we present the localization of two MSPs,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-28 Shyam Sunder , Jayanta Roy , Sanjay Kudale , Bhaswati Bhattacharyya , Arpit K. Behera , Shubham Singh

Our understanding of the elusive radio-pulsar emission mechanism would be deepened by determining the locality of the emission. Pulsars in which the two poles interact can potentially help solve this challenge. We here report the discovery…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-11 X. Song , P. Weltevrede , J. van Leeuwen , G. Wright , M. Keith

We present high signal-to-noise ratio, multi-frequency polarization pulse profiles for 24 millisecond pulsars that are being observed as part of the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array (PPTA) project. The pulsars are observed in three bands, centred…

We present deep XMM-Newton EPIC spectroscopic and timing X-ray observations of the nearby solitary radio millisecond pulsar, PSR J0030+0451. Its emission spectrum in the 0.1-10 keV range is found to be remarkably similar to that of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 Slavko Bogdanov , Jonathan E. Grindlay

We present a new model of high-energy lightcurves from rotation powered pulsars. The key ingredient of the model is the gap region (i.e. the region where particle acceleration is taking place and high-energy photons originate) which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Dyks , B. Rudak

This paper reports the ULTRACAM discovery of dipolar surface spots in two cool magnetic white dwarfs with Balmer emission lines, while a third system exhibits a single spot, similar to the prototype GD 356. The light curves are modeled with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-26 J. Farihi , J. J. Hermes , S. P. Littlefair , I. D. Howarth , N. Walters , S. G. Parsons

The intense magnetic fields of neutron stars naturally lead to strong anisotropy and polarization of radiation emanating from their surfaces, both being sensitive to the hot spot position on the surface. Accordingly, pulse phase-resolved…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-21 Matthew G. Baring , Hoa Dinh Thi , George A. Younes , Kun Hu

We present an analysis of polarized X-ray pulses based on simulated data for accreting millisecond pulsars (AMPs). We used the open-source X-ray Pulse Simulation and Inference code (previously applied to NICER observations), which we…

Originally observed in isophotal density contours of elliptical galaxies, higher order perturbations in the form of Fourier modes, or multipoles, are becoming increasingly recognized as necessary to account for angular mass complexity in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-29 John H. Miller , Liliya L. R. Williams

We report on polarimetric observations of 100 pulsars centered on 774 MHz, made using the Green Bank Telescope, presenting their polarization profiles and polarized flux densities and comparing them with previous observations when possible.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-25 J. L. Han , P. B. Demorest , W. van Straten , A. G. Lyne

The Galactic Center is host to a population of extraordinary radio filaments, thin linear structures that trace out magnetic field lines running perpendicular to the Galactic plane. Using Murriyang, the 64 m Parkes radio telescope, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-08 Marcus E. Lower , Shi Dai , Simon Johnston , Ewan D. Barr