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Coherent radio emission from pulsars originates from excited plasma waves in an ultra-relativistic and strongly magnetized electron-positron pair plasma streaming along the open magnetic field lines of the pulsar. Traditional coherent radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-16 Sk. Minhajur Rahaman , Dipanjan Mitra , George I. Melikidze

Since pulsars were discovered as emitters of bright coherent radio emission more than half a century ago, the cause of the emission has remained a mystery. In this Letter we demonstrate that coherent radiation can be directly generated in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-29 Alexander Philippov , Andrey Timokhin , Anatoly Spitkovsky

We analyze and model rapid rotations of polarization orientations in PSR B1919+21's single pulses based on Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope observation data. In more than one-third of B1919+21's single pulses, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-04 Shunshun Cao , Jinchen Jiang , Jaroslaw Dyks , Kejia Lee , Jiguang Lu , Lucy S. Oswald , Weiyang Wang , Renxin Xu

We have conducted observations of 22 pulsars at frequencies of 0.7, 1.4 and 3.1 GHz and present their polarization profiles. The observations were carried out for two main purposes. First we compare the orientation of the spin and velocity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Simon Johnston , M. Kramer , A. Karastergiou , G. Hobbs , S. Ord , J. Wallman

Following the basic principles of a charge separated pulsar magnetosphere \citep{goldreich1969}, we consider the magnetosphere be stationary in space, instead of corotating, and the electric field be uploaded from the potential distribution…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-07-01 K. H. Tsui

We have developed a method to compute the possible distribution of radio emission regions in a typical pulsar magnetosphere, taking into account the viewing geometry and rotational effects of the neutron star. Our method can estimate the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 R. M. C. Thomas , Y. Gupta , R. T. Gangadhara

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

In the canonical model of a pulsar, rotational energy is transmitted through the surrounding plasma via two electrical circuits, each connecting to the star over a small region known as a "polar cap." For a dipole-magnetized star, the polar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-03 Samuel E. Gralla , Alexandru Lupsasca , Alexander Philippov

We present a semi-analytical approach for modeling circumstellar emission from rotating hot stars with a strong dipole magnetic field tilted at an arbitrary angle to the rotation axis. By assuming the rigid-field limit in which material…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 R. H. D. Townsend , S. P. Owocki

Soon after the discovery of radio pulsars in 1967, the pulsars are identified as strongly magnetic (typically $10^{12}$G) rapidly rotating ($\sim 10^{2}-0.1$ Hz) neutron stars. However, the mechanism of particle acceleration in the pulsar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Tomohide Wada , Shinpei Shibata

In the present work we consider energy accumulation mechanism in relativistic electron-positron plasma in the magnetosphere of pulsars. Waves propagating almost across the magnetic field lines are generated that accumulate the energy of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-20 George Machabeli , Nino Chkheidze , Igor Malov

Over the last fifty years since the discovery of pulsars, our understanding of where and how pulsars emit the radiation we observe has undergone significant revision. The location and mechanisms of high-energy radiation are intimately tied…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-22 Alice K. Harding

The equatorial current sheet in pulsar magnetospheres is often regarded as an ideal site for particle acceleration via relativistic reconnection. Using 2D spherical particle-in-cell simulations, we investigate particle acceleration in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Benoît Cerutti , Alexander Philippov , Kyle Parfrey , Anatoly Spitkovsky

The pulsar radio emission originates from regions below 10% of the light cylinder radius. This requires a mechanism where coherent emission is excited in relativistic pair plasma with frequency $\nu_{cr}$ which is below the plasma frequency…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-27 Dipanjan Mitra

The long-standing assumption of symmetric radio emission beams from the two magnetic poles of pulsars is challenged by observational evidence of asymmetry and underfill. Direct testing of this symmetry remains difficult for most pulsars. As…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-01 Xiancong Wu , Hongguang Wang , Hao Tong , Rui Luo , Pengfei Wang , Chengbing Lyu , Hai Lei

The recent revelation that there are correlated period derivative and pulse shape changes in pulsars has dramatically changed our understanding of timing noise as well as the relationship between the radio emission and the properties of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-22 Benjamin Shaw , Benjamin W. Stappers , Paul R. Brook , Aris Karastergiou , Andrew G. Lyne , Patrick Weltevrede

Propagation of radio waves in the ultrarelativistic magnetized electron-positron plasma of pulsar magnetosphere is considered. Polarization state of the original natural waves is found to vary markedly on account of the wave mode coupling…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. A. Petrova

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

Recently a data set containing linear and circular polarisation information of a collection of six hundred pulsars has been released. The operative radio wavelength for the same was 21 cm. Pulsars radio emission process is modelled either…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-11-11 Karam Chand , Subhayan Mandal

We have made polarimetric monitoring observations of millisecond pulsars visible from the northern hemisphere at 1410 MHz. Their emission properties are compared with those of normal pulsars. Although we demonstrated in paper I that…