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We present a comprehensive investigation of the radio polarization properties within the theory of natural electromagnetic wave modes in pulsar magnetospheres. Taking into account the curvature of the field lines, aberration effects and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexis von Hoensbroech , Harald Lesch , Thomas Kunzl

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

Diffractive and refractive magnetospheric scintillations may allow a direct testing of the plasma inside the light cylinder. Unusual electrodynamics of the strongly magnetized electron-positron plasma allow separation of the magnetospheric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Maxim Lyutikov

High magnetic fields are a distinguishing feature of neutron stars and the existence of sources (the soft gamma repeaters and the anomalous X-ray pulsars) hosting an ultra-magnetized neutron star (or magnetar) has been recognized in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-07-11 Nanda Rea , Jose' A. Pons , Diego F. Torres , Roberto Turolla

Polarization is very sensitive to the configuration of the magnetic field in the radiation region. In addition to polarization curve and polarization spectrum, studies of polarization angle (PA) rotation spectrum is also crucial. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-15 Xing-Yao Wang , Jia-Sheng Li , Mi-Xiang Lan

We apply a theory of wave propagation through a turbulent medium to the scattering of radio waves in pulsar magnetospheres. We find that under conditions of strong density modulation the effects of magnetospheric scintillations in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Maxim Lyutikov , Anuj Parikh

We conduct force-free simulations of a single neutron star undergoing orbital motion in flat spacetime, mimicking the trajectory of the star about the center of mass on a compact binary system. Our attention is focused on the kinetic energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-18 Federico Carrasco , Masaru Shibata

Magnetars are a unique class of neutron stars characterized by their incredibly strong magnetic fields. Unlike normal pulsars whose X-ray emission was driven by rotational energy loss, magnetars exhibit distinct X-ray emissions thought to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-21 Che-Yen Chu , Hsiang-Kuang Chang

The field of fast radio bursts (FRBs) has entered the age of fine characterization as observational results from different radio telescopes become more and more abundant. The large FRB sample is suitable for a statistical study. There is an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-25 Di Xiao , Zi-Gao Dai , Xue-Feng Wu

We perform Monte Carlo simulations of cosmic ray-induced hard X-ray radiation from the Earth's atmosphere. We find that the shape of the spectrum emergent from the atmosphere in the energy range 25-300 keV is mainly determined by Compton…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Sazonov , E. Churazov , R. Sunyaev , M. Revnivtsev

There is a general consensus about the fact that the magnetar scenario provides a convincing explanation for several of the observed properties of the Anomalous X-ray Pulsars and the Soft Gamma Repeaters. However, the origin of the emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Silvia Zane , Luciano Nobili , Roberto Turolla

Fast spinning (e.g., sub-second) neutron star with ultra-strong magnetic fields (or so-called magnetar) is one of the promising origins of repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs). Here we discuss circularly polarised emissions produced by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-27 Shi Dai , Jiguang Lu , Chen Wang , Weiyang Wang , Renxin Xu , Yuanpei Yang , Songbo Zhang , George Hobbs , Di Li , Rui Luo , Miroslav Filipovic , Jinchen Jiang

Polarizability tensor of a strongly magnetized plasma and the polarization vectors and opacities of normal electromagnetic waves are studied for the conditions typical of neutron star atmospheres, taking account of partial ionization…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Y. Potekhin , Dong Lai , G. Chabrier , W. C. G. Ho

We discuss properties of the expected radio emission from Soft Gamma-ray Repeaters (SGRs) during their bursting activity in the framework of the model of Thompson, Lyutikov and Kulkarni (2002), in which the high energy emission is powered…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Maxim Lyutikov

Although the surface of a magnetar is a source of bright thermal X-rays, its spectrum contains substantial non-thermal components. The X-ray emission is pulsed, with pulsed fractions that can be as high as ~ 70%. Several properties of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Rodrigo Fernandez , Christopher Thompson

Most current pulsar emission models assume photon production and emission within the magnetosphere. Low frequency radiation is preferentially produced in the vicinity of the polar caps whereas the high-energy tail is shifted to regions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-21 Jérôme Pétri

Plasma waves in the magnetosphere scatter electrons, causing them to precipitate into Earth's atmosphere, imparting their temporal characteristics to diffuse auroras. In a case study of conjugate radar and satellite observations, we…

Neutrino-photon processes, forbidden in vacuum, can take place in the presence of a thermal medium and/or an external electro-magnetic field, mediated by the corresponding charged leptons (real or virtual). Such interactions affect the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Sushan Konar , Subinoy Das

We investigate the properties of the normal modes in a strongly magnetized hydrogen gas for conditions expected in atmospheres of isolated neutron stars. We derive and compute the polarizations and absorption coefficients of the normal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Tomasz Bulik , George Pavlov

We give a compact expression for the unpolarised differential cross section for muon-proton scattering in the one photon exchange approximation. The effect of adding the vacuum polarisation amplitude to the no-spin-flip amplitude for one…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Gashi , G. Rasche , W. S. Woolcock