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We present a systematic study of the circular polarization in pulsar integrated profiles, based on published polarization data. For core components, we find no significant correlation between the sense-change of circular polarization and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 J. L. Han , R. N. Manchester , R. X. Xu , G. J. Qiao

We report here the discovery of a significant source of systematic error in the rotation measure determinations of pulsars. Conventional analysis of high sensitivity polarimetric observations of PSR B2016+28 display variation of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Ramachandran , D. C. Backer , J. M. Rankin , J. M. Weisberg , K. E. Devine

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

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

In an earlier paper, we introduced a model for pulsars in which non-radial oscillations of high spherical degree (\el) aligned to the magnetic axis of a spinning neutron star were able to reproduce subpulses like those observed in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Christopher Clemens , R. Rosen

By fitting the classical Rotating Vector Model (RVM) to high quality polarization data for selected radio pulsars, we find the inclination of the magnetic axis to the spin axis, alpha, as well as the minimum angle between the line of sight…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. E. Everett , J. M. Weisberg

In most pulsars, the circularly polarized component, Stokes $V$, is weak in the average pulse profiles. By forming the average profile of $|V|$ from single pulses we can distinguish between pulsars where $V$ is weak in the individual pulses…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Aris Karastergiou , Simon Johnston

We have developed a relativistic model for pulsar radio emission and polarization by taking into account of detailed geometry of emission region, rotation and modulation. The sparks activity on the polar cap leads to plasma columns in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 D. Kumar , R. T. Gangadhara

A statistical model is used to determine how stochastic fluctuations in the intensities of orthogonal polarization modes contribute to the modulation and depolarization of pulsar radio emission. General expressions for the distributions of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-19 M. M. McKinnon

The polarization of an X-ray beam that produces electrons with velocity components perpendicular to the beam generates an azimuthal distribution of the ejected electrons. We present methods for simulating and for analyzing the angular…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-10 C. G. Montgomery , J. H. Swank

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

Polarimetric studies of pulsar radio emission traditionally concentrate on how the Stokes vector (I, Q, U, V) varies with pulse longitude, with special emphasis on the position angle (PA) swing of the linearly polarized component. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-08 C. T. Y. Chung , A. Melatos

We present a study of single pulses from nine bright northern pulsars to investigate the behaviour of circular polarisation, V. The observations were conducted with the Effelsberg 100-m radio telescope at 1.41 GHz and 4.85 GHz and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Karastergiou , S. Johnston , D. Mitra , A. G. J. van Leeuwen , R. T. Edwards

Polarization observations of the radio emission from PSR B2016+28 at 1404 MHz reveal properties that are consistent with two, very different, interpretations of the pulsar's viewing geometry. The pulsar's average polarization properties…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Mark M. McKinnon

Pulsar radio emission is modelled as a sum of two completely polarized non-orthogonal modes with the randomly varying Stokes parameters and intensity ratio. The modes are the result of polarization evolution of the original natural waves in…

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

Two entwined problems have remained unresolved since pulsars were discovered nearly 50 years ago: the orientation of their polarized emission relative to the emitting magnetic field and the direction of putative supernova ``kicks' relative…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Joanna M. Rankin

We have analyzed the polarization properties of pulsars at an observing frequency of 4.9 GHz. Together with low frequency data, we are able to trace polarization profiles over more than three octaves into an interesting frequency regime. At…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. von Hoensbroech , J. Kijak , A. Krawczyk

In this work we present a revised measurement of the phase-averaged optical polarisation of the Vela pulsar (PSR B0833-45), for which only one value has been published so far (Wagner & Seifert 2000). Our measurement has been obtained…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. P. Mignani , S. Bagnulo , J. Dyks , G. Lo Curto , A. Slowikowska

The perturbations such as rotation and PC--current have been believed to be greatly affecting the pulsar radio emission and polarization. The two effects have not been considered simultaneously in the literature, however, each one of these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 D. Kumar , R. T. Gangadhara

The diverse polarization properties in pulsars are in conflict with applying a unique emission mechanism to the population. The polarization position angle (PPA) traverse in most pulsars shows a S-shaped curve that can be interpreted using…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-01 Dipanjan Mitra , George I. Melikidze , Rahul Basu