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A statistical model of the polarization of pulsar radio emission is used to derive the general statistics of a polarization vector's orientation angles. The theoretical distributions are compared with orientation angle histograms computed…

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

We present an empirical model for single pulses of radio emission from pulsars based on gaussian probability distributions for relevant variables. The radiation at a specific pulse phase is represented as the superposition of radiation in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Melrose , A. Miller , A. Karastergiou , Q. Luo

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

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

Despite some success in explaining the observed polarisation angle swing of radio pulsars within the geometric rotating vector model, many deviations from the expected S-like swing are observed. In this paper we provide a simple and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Karastergiou

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

We present polarisation profiles for 48 southern pulsars observed with the new 10-cm receiver at the Parkes telescope. We have exploited the low system temperature and high bandwidth of the receiver to obtain profiles which have good signal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Karastergiou , S. Johnston , R. N. Manchester

The observed polarization of radio pulsars involves several peculiar effects, such as comparable amount of orthogonal polarization modes (OPMs) which often bear the same handedness of circular polarisation V. In the average profiles of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-22 J. Dyks

A variety of intriguing polarization patterns are created when polarization observations of the single pulses from radio pulsars are displayed in a two-dimensional projection of the Poincare sphere. In many pulsars, the projections produce…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Mark M. McKinnon

A statistical model for the polarization of pulsar radio emission is enhanced to account for the heavy modulation of the emission, the possible covariance of the Stokes parameters, and the observed asymmetries in the distributions of total…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-12 M. M. McKinnon

We present a relativistic model for the motion of charged particles in rotating magnetic field lines projected on to a plane perpendicular to the rotation axis. By making an approximation that the projected field lines are straight, an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. M. C. Thomas , R. T. Gangadhara

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

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 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 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

Properties of circularly polarized waves are studied in the pulsar magnetosphere plasma. It is shown that some observational characteristics of the circular polarization observed in the pulsar radio emission can be qualitatively explained…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Gogoberidze , G. Z. Machabeli

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

Frequency dependence of pulsar linear polarization is investigated by simulations of emission and propagation processes. Linearly polarized waves are generated through curvature radiation by relativistic particles streaming along curved…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 P. F. Wang , C. Wang , J. L. Han

Transitional millisecond pulsars (tMSPs) bridge the evolutionary gap between accreting neutron stars in low-mass X-ray binaries and millisecond radio pulsars. These systems exhibit a unique subluminous X-ray state characterized by the…

We present polarization observations of the radio emitting magnetar AXP J1810-197. Using simultaneous multi-frequency observations performed at 1.4, 4.9 and 8.4 GHz, we obtained polarization information for single pulses and the average…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Kramer , B. W. Stappers , A. Jessner , A. G. Lyne , C. A. Jordan