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We propose a model for rotating current patterns within radiopulsar polar cap accelerators which has observational consequences that mimic those which have been attributed to neutron star free precession. The model is a simple extension of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Ruderman , J. Gil

Analysis of plasma acceleration in pulsars with positive corotational charge density has shown that any element of area on the polar cap is bi-stable: it can be in phases either of pure proton emission or of mixed ions and protons (the ion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 P. B. Jones

Ions, protons and possibly a small flux of electrons and positrons are accelerated outward from the polar cap of a normal or millisecond pulsar whose rotational spin is antiparallel with its magnetic moment. The Langmuir modes of this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 P. B. Jones

Qiao and his collaborators recently proposed an inverse Compton Scattering (ICS) model to explain radio emission of pulsars. In this paper, we investigate the polarization properties of pulsar emission in the model. First of all, using the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. X. Xu , J. F. Liu , J. L. Han , G. J. Qiao

We present an empirical model for single pulses of radio emission from pulsars based on gaussian probability distributions for relevant variables. The radiation at a specific pulse phase is represented as the superposition of radiation in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Melrose , A. Miller , A. Karastergiou , Q. Luo

This paper continues a previous study of neutron stars with positive polar-cap corotational charge density in which free emission of ions maintains the surface electric-field boundary condition E.B = 0. The composition of the accelerated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 P. B. Jones

It is known that the concept of limiting polarization introduced seventy years ago by K G Budden has the capacity to explain the magnitude of circular polarization seen in normal pulsars with rotation periods of the order of one second…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-07 P B Jones

A variety of intriguing polarization patterns are created when polarization observations of the single pulses from radio pulsars are displayed in a two-dimensional projection of the Poincare sphere. In many pulsars, the projections produce…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Mark M. McKinnon

Polarization measurements provide strong constraints on models for emission from rotation-powered pulsars. We present multiwavelength polarization predictions showing that measurements over a range of frequencies can be particularly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-24 Alice K. Harding , Constantinos Kalapotharakos

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

Extended periods of radio pulsations have been observed for six magnetars, displaying characteristics different from those of ordinary pulsars. In this Letter, we argue that radio emission is generated in a closed, twisted magnetic flux…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-18 Shuzhe Zeng , Alexander Philippov , James Juno , Andrei M. Beloborodov , Elena Popova

We apply the standard radio pulsar rotating vector model to the white dwarf pulsar AR Sco's optical polarization position angle swings folded at the white dwarf's spin period as obtained by Buckley et al. (2017). Owing to the long duty…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Louis du Plessis , Zorawar Wadiasingh , Christo Venter , Alice K. Harding

The Neutron-star Interior Composition ExploreR (NICER) is collecting data to measure the radii of neutron stars by observing the pulsed emission from their surfaces. The primary targets are isolated, rotation-powered pulsars, in which the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-27 Michi Baubock , Dimitrios Psaltis , Feryal Ozel

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…

Using an analytic, axisymmetric approach that includes general relativity, coupled to a condition for pair production deduced from simulations, we derive general results about the spatial distribution of pair-producing field lines over the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-26 Mikhail A. Belyaev , Kyle Parfrey

We present polarization data for 32 mainly southern pulsars at 8.4 GHz. The observations show that the polarization fraction is low in most pulsars at this frequency except for the young, energetic pulsars which continue to show…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-16 Simon Johnston , Aris Karastergiou , Kyle Willett

Structure of mean pulsar radiation patterns is discussed within the nested-cones and patchy beam models. Observational predictions of both these models are analyzed and compared with available data on pulsar waveforms. It is argued that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Kijak , J. Gil

Thermal radiation from hot polar caps is examined in radio pulsars with drifting subpulses. It is argued that if these subpulses correspond to sparking discharges of the inner acceleration region right above the polar cap surface then a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Janusz Gil , George Melikidze , Bing Zhang

The Parkes 20 cm Multibeam pulsar surveys have discovered nearly half of the known pulsars and revealed many distant pulsars with high dispersion measures. Using a sample of 1,301 pulsars from these surveys, we have explored the spatial…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-23 J. T. Xie , J. B. Wang , N. Wang , R. Manchester , G. Hobbs

The model of pulsar radio emission is discussed in which a coherent radio emis-sion is excited in a vacuum gap above polar cap of neutron star. Pulsar X and gamma radiation are considered as the result of low-frequency radio emission…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 V. M. Kontorovich , A. B. Flanchik