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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

At millimeter wavelengths, the atmospheric emission is circularly polarized owing to the Zeeman splitting of molecular oxygen by the Earth's magnetic field. We report a measurement of the signal in the 150 GHz band using 3 years of…

We consider the polarization properties of radiation emitted by relativistic charged particles while moving along the curved magnetic field lines in a pulsar manetosphere. We propose that the radiation emitted by positrons and electrons…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. T. Gangadhara

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

Radio polarization measurements of pulsed emission from pulsars offer a valuable insight into the basic geometry of the neutron star: inclination angle between the magnetic and rotation axis and inclination of the line of sight. So far, all…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-11 J. Pétri

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

Mean pulse profiles and polarization properties are presented for nine southern pulsars. The observations were made using the Parkes radio telescope at frequencies near 1330 MHz; three of the nine pulsars were also observed at 660 MHz. A…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R N Manchester , J L Han

The polarization position angles (PPA) of time samples with high linear polarization often show two parallel tracks across the pulsar profile that follow the rotating vector model (RVM). This feature support coherent curvature radiation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-22 Dipanjan Mitra , Rahul Basu , George I. Melikidze

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

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

The general model for incoherent synchrotron radiation has long been known, with the first theory being published by Westfold in $1959$ and continued by Westfold and Legg in $1968$. When this model was first developed it was applied to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-24 Diarmaid de Búrca , Andrew Shearer

The pulsar profile is characterised by two distinct emission components, the core and the cone. The standard model of a pulsar radio emission beam originating from dipolar magnetic fields, places the core at the centre surrounded by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-30 Rahul Basu , Dipanjan Mitra , George I. Melikidze

In the canonical picture of pulsars, radio emission arises from a narrow cone centered on the star's magnetic axis but many basic details remain unclear. We use high-quality polarization data taken with the Parkes radio telescope to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-11-06 Simon Johnston , Michael Kramer

In this paper we present the first observations of a large sample of millisecond pulsars at frequencies of 2.7 GHz and 4.9 GHz. Our new flux measurements extend the known spectra for millisecond pulsars to the highest frequencies to date.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Kramer , C. Lange , D. R. Lorimer , D. C. Backer , K. M. Xilouris , A. Jessner , R. Wielebinski

The nature of coherent radio emission is still challenging even after more than half a century of pulsar discovery, but it is generally a consensus that single-pulse observations are essential for probing the magnetospheric dynamics,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-11 Shunshun Cao , Yanjun Guo , Jinchen Jiang , Kejia Lee , Weiyang Wang , Renxin Xu

Using the first station of the Long Wavelength Array (LWA1), we examine polarized pulsar emission between 25 and 88 MHz. Polarized light from pulsars undergoes Faraday rotation as it passes through the magnetized interstellar medium.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-01 V. Dike , G. B. Taylor , J. Dowell , K. Stovall

Polarization observations of radio pulsars show that abrupt transitions in the polarization vector's position angle can be accompanied by large excursions in the vector's ellipticity angle, suggesting the vector passes near the right or…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-20 M. M. McKinnon

This paper examines the detailed sub-milliarcsecond polarization properties of an individual SiO maser feature displaying a rotation in polarization electric vector position angle of approximately \pi/2 across the feature. Such rotations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 A. J. Kemball , P. J. Diamond , L. Richter , I. Gonidakis , R. Xue

In this paper we compare the characteristics of pulsars with a high spin-down energy loss rate (Edot) against those with a low Edot. We show that the differences in the total intensity pulse morphology between the two classes are in general…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Patrick Weltevrede , Simon Johnston

Polarisation of radio pulsar profiles involves a number of poorly understood, intriguing phenomena, such as the existence of comparable amounts of orthogonal polarisation modes (OPMs), strong distortions of polarisation angle (PA) curves…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-26 J. Dyks