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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

The self-consistent two-fluid model of the pulsar magnetosphere is considered. We concentrate on the case of vanishingly small inertia of the particles. Our approach allows to obtain the realistic particle distributions sustaining the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 S. A. Petrova

We study the propagation of polarization light through the magnetosphere of neutron stars. At intermediate frequencies (the optical through the infrared), both the birefringence induced by the plasma and by quantumelectrodynamics influence…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. M. Shannon , Jeremy S. Heyl

The accumulation of electrons and positrons in the vacuum magnetosphere of a neutron star with a surface magnetic field of B~10^12 G is considered. It is shown that particles created in the magnetosphere or falling into the magnetosphere…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-12-17 Ya. N. Istomin , D. N. Sob'yanin

The polarization of electromagnetic waves in the presence of a gravitational wave is analyzed. The rotation of the polarization angle and the Stokes parameters are deduced. A possible application to the detection of stochastic background of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-03 Shahen Hacyan

Beam instabilities in the strongly magnetized electron-positron plasma of pulsar magnetospheres are considered. We analyze the resonance conditions and estimate the growth rates of the Cherenkov and cyclotron instabilities of the ordinary…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Maxim Lyutikov

It is shown that pulsar radio emission can be generated effectively through a streaming motion in the polar-cap regions of a pulsar magnetosphere causing nonresonant growth of waves that can escape directly. As in other beam models, a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Gedalin , E. Gruman , D. B. Melrose

The population of radio pulsars is observed to demonstrate certain polarization properties not explained by the conventional picture of pulsar polarization, namely frequency evolution of polarization, deviations of the linear polarization…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-02 Lucy Oswald , Aris Karastergiou , Simon Johnston

In neutron star (NS) magnetospheres, plasma waves propagate as normal modes with distinct propagation dynamics that strongly influence observable signals. This letter presents a unified theory of linear mode conversion between Alfv'en (A),…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-12 Dawei Dai , Ashley Bransgrove , Anirudh Prabhu , Jens F. Mahlmann

We derive in this an expression for the rotation of plane of polarization, of an electromagnetic wave, induced by the field of a gravitational wave propagating along the same direction $\approx \f{G\mu d^2\Omega^4}{3\o}$, $\o$ and $\Omega$…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-17 A. R. Prasanna , S. Mohanty

Relativistic plasmas in strong electromagnetic fields exhibit distinct properties compared to classical plasmas. In astrophysical environments, such as neutron stars, white dwarfs, AGNs, and shocks, relativistic plasmas are pervasive and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-04-15 Pablo J. Bilbao , Thales Silva , Luis O. Silva

We establish that for PSR B0031-07 the orthogonal polarization modes switch at a single pulse level synchronously with the periodic drifting subpulses seen in total intensity. There are only four other pulsars known for which this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Cristina D. Ilie , Patrick Weltevrede , Simon Johnston , Tianyue Chen

We report the results of 1D particle-in-cell simulations of ultrarelativistic shock waves in proton-electron-positron plasmas. We consider magnetized shock waves, in which the upstream medium carries a large scale magnetic field, directed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Elena Amato , Jonathan Arons

We have developed a model for the polarization of curvature radiation by taking into account the polar-cap-current induced perturbation on the dipolar magnetic field. We present the effects of the polar cap current on the pulsar radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-09 D. Kumar , R. T. Gangadhara

A feedforward scheme is applied for drift waves control in a magnetized magnetron sputtering plasma. A system of driven electrodes collecting electron current in a limited region of the explored plasma is used to interact with unstable…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 E. Martines , M. Zuin , R. Cavazzana , J. Adámek , V. Antoni , G. Serianni , M. Spolaore , N. Vianello

The energy lost by a rotation-powered pulsar is carried by a relativistic flow containing a mixture of electromagnetic fields and particles. In the inner regions, this is thought to be a magnetically dominated, cold, electron-positron wind…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Ioanna Arka , John G. Kirk

Pulsars radiate radio signals when they rotate. However, some old pulsars often stop radiating for some periods. The underlying mechanism remains unknown, while the magnetosphere during nulling phases is hard to probe due to the absence of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-21 X. Chen , Y. Yan , J. L. Han , C. Wang , P. F. Wang , W. C. Jing , K. J. Lee , B. Zhang , R. X. Xu , T. Wang , Z. L. Yang , W. Q. Su , N. N. Cai , W. Y. Wang , G. J. Qiao , J. Xu , D. J. Zhou

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

Nonlinear propagation of electrostatic modes in ultrarelativistic dense elelectron-positron gravito-plasma at the polar cap region of pulsar magnetosphere is considered. A nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation is obtained from the reductive…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 U. A. Mofiz , M. R. Amin

We report on an analysis of the polarization of single pulses of PSR B0329+54 at 328 MHz. We find that the distribution of polarization orientations in the central component diverges strongly from the standard picture of orthogonal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. T. Edwards , B. W. Stappers