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Stellar atmosphere models of ionized accretion disks have generally neglected the contribution of magnetic fields to the vertical hydrostatic support, although magnetic fields are widely believed to play a critical role in the transport of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 O. M. Blaes , S. W. Davis , S. Hirose , J. H. Krolik , J. M. Stone

Most studies of the pulsar magnetosphere have assumed a pure magnetic dipole in flat spacetime. However, recent work suggests that the effects of general relativity are in fact of vital importance and that realistic pulsar magnetic fields…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-21 Samuel E. Gralla , Alexandru Lupsasca , Alexander Philippov

In their catalogue of pulsars' radio spectra, Swainston et al. (2022, PASA, 39, e056) distinguish between five different forms of these spectra: those that can be fitted with (i) a simple power law, (ii) a broken power law, (iii) a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-29 Houshang Ardavan

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

The polarization plane of the cosmic microwave background radiation can be rotated either in a magnetized plasma or in the presence of a quintessential background with pseudoscalar coupling to electromagnetism. A unified treatment of these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Massimo Giovannini

We present a detailed investigation of atmospheres around accreting neutron stars with high magnetic field ($B\gtrsim 10^{12}$ G) and low luminosity ($L\lesssim 10^{33}$ erg/s). We compute the atmospheric structure, intensity and emergent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Zane , R. Turolla , A. Treves

One of the most important unresolved issues in gamma-ray burst physics is the origin of the prompt gamma-ray spectrum. Its general non-thermal character and the softness in the X-ray band remain unexplained. We tackle these issues by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Atul Chhotray , Davide Lazzati

The spectrum of electromagnetic emission generated by relativistic electrons scattered on small-scale random magnetic fields, implied by current models of the magnetic field generation in the gamma-ray burst sources, is considered. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Gregory D. Fleishman

We propose a self-consistent model which utilizes the polarization vector to theoretically describe the evolution of spin polarization of relativistic electrons in an intense electromagnetic field. The variation of radiative polarization…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-07-02 Yuhui Tang , Zheng Gong , Jinqing Yu , Yinren Shou , Xueqing Yan

We study the pulse morphologies and pulse amplitudes of thermally emitting neutron stars with ultrastrong magnetic fields. The beaming of the radiation emerging from a magnetar was recently shown to be predominantly non-radial, with a small…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Feryal Ozel

This paper explores the effects of strong magnetic fields on the Compton scattering of relativistic electrons. Recent studies of upscattering and energy loss by relativistic electrons that have used the non-relativistic, magnetic Thomson…

X-ray photons emitted from the surface or atmosphere of a magnetized neutron star is highly polarized. However, the observed polarization may be modified due to photon propagation through the star's magnetosphere. For photon frequencies…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 Chen Wang , Dong Lai

(abridged) Pulsar activity and its related radiation mechanism are usually explained by invoking some plasma processes occurring inside the magnetosphere. Despite many detailed local investigations, the global electrodynamics around those…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 J. Pétri

The polarization of radiation by scattering on an atom embedded in combined external quadrupole electric and uniform magnetic fields is studied theoretically. Analytic formulae are derived for the scattering phase matrix. Limiting cases of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yee Yee Oo , K. N. Nagendra , Sharath Ananthamurthy , G. Ramachandran

We explore possible effects of a magnetar burst on the radio, X-ray, and gamma-ray flux of a pulsar wind nebula (PWN). We assume that the burst injects electron-positron pairs or powers the magnetic field and explore the total energy at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-17 J. Martin , D. F. Torres , B. Zhang

The aim of this work is to study the possible effects and biases on the radius constraints for rotation-powered millisecond pulsars when using Thomson approximation to describe electron scattering in the atmosphere models, instead of using…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-02 T. Salmi , V. Suleimanov , J. Poutanen

(Abridged) Gamma-ray emission from pulsars has long been modeled using a vacuum dipole field. This approximation ignores changes in the field structure caused by the magnetospheric plasma and strong plasma currents. We present the first…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Xue-Ning Bai , Anatoly Spitkovsky

We explore the impact of magnetic field on neutrino-matter interactions in core-collapse supernova. We first derive the modified source terms for neutrino-nucleon scattering and neutrino absorption and emission processes in the moment…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-27 Takami Kuroda

Linear and circular polarizations of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been detected during recent years. We adopt a simplified model to investigate GRB polarization characteristics in this paper. A compressed two-dimensional turbulent slab…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-19 Jirong Mao , Jiancheng Wang

The beamed radio emission from relativistic plasma (particles or bunches), constrained to move along the curved trajectories, occurs in the direction of velocity. We have generalized the coherent curvature radiation model to include the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 R. T. Gangadhara