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We present detailed scattering models confirming that distinctive variations in polarization across the broad Halpha line, which are observed in a significant fraction of Seyfert 1 galaxies, can be understood in terms of a rotating…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 J. E. Smith , A. Robinson , S. Young , D. J. Axon , Elizabeth A. Corbett

It has been argued in previous papers that an ion-proton plasma is formed at the polar caps of neutron stars with positive polar-cap corotational charge density. The present paper does not offer a theory of the development of turbulence…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-09 P B Jones

The average polarization properties of conal single and double profiles directly reflect the polarization-modal structure of the emission beams which produce them. These average properties require that the circulating subbeam systems which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. M. Rankin , R. Ramachandran

Muon decay is self-analyzing: the spectral-angular distribution of the emitted electron reveals the spin orientation of the polarized muon. Here, we show that the same feature applies to muons in non-plane-wave states and helps reveal the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-10 Pengcheng Zhao , Igor P. Ivanov , Pengming Zhang

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

Spontaneous spin polarization of the electrical current flowing through nonmagnetic semiconductor junctions can be generated by carrier scattering processes that are independent of the carrier spin. The two required elements for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yunong Qi , Michael E. Flatté

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are observed to be highly polarized. Most have high linear polarization but a small fraction show significant circular polarization. We systematically investigate a variety of polarization mechanisms of FRBs within…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-19 Yuanhong Qu , Bing Zhang

We show experimentally that a continuous, linear, dielectric antenna in which a superluminal polarization-current distribution accelerates can be used to transmit a broadband signal that is reproduced in a comprehensible form at a chosen…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-01 John Singleton , Andrea C. Schmidt , Connor Bailey , James Wigger , Frank L. Krawczyk

In this paper we put forward a mechanism in which imploding shock waves emit electromagnetic radiation in the spectral region $\lambda_{0}\cong 2\pi R_{0}.$, where R$_{0}$ is the radius of the shock by the time it is first formed. The…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-09-25 Marcelo Schiffer

In inhomogeneous optically thick synchrotron sources a substantial part of the electron population at low energies can be hidden by self-absorption and overpowered by high energy electrons in optically thin emission. These invisible…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Thomas Beckert , Heino Falcke

Waves scattered at a self-oscillating mode can exhibit superradiance, or net amplification of an external harmonic excitation. This exotic behavior, arising from the nonlinear coupling between the mode and the incident wave, is…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-03-22 Tiemo Pedergnana , Nicolas Noiray

The scattering and transformation of the waves propagating in magnetized plasma on a heavy stationary charged particle located at a plane plasma-vacuum boundary is considered. The scattering (transformation) occurs due to the nonlinear…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Hrachya B. Nersisyan

A new nonlinear electromagnetic wave mode in a magnetized plasma is predicted. Its existence depends on the interaction of an intense circularly polarized electromagnetic wave with a plasma, where quantum electrodynamical photon--photon…

Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-04 M. Marklund , P. K. Shukla , L. Stenflo , G. Brodin , M. Servin

Rotating spiral waves with a central core composed of phase-randomized oscillators can arise in reaction-diffusion systems if some of the chemical components involved are diffusion-free. This peculiar phenomenon is demonstrated for a…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 Shin-ichiro Shima , Yoshiki Kuramoto

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are bright millisecond radio bursts at cosmological distances. Only a small fraction of FRBs apparently repeat. Polarization, a fundamental property of electromagnetic signals, often carries critical information…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-13 Yi Feng , Yong-Kun Zhang , Di Li , Yuan-Pei Yang , Pei Wang , Chen-Hui Niu , Shi Dai , Ju-Mei Yao

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are short-timescale transients of extragalactic origin. The number of detected FRBs has grown dramatically since their serendipitous discovery from archival data. Some FRBs have also been seen to repeat. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-21 Pavan Uttarkar , Ryan M. Shannon , Marcus E. Lower , Pravir Kumar , Danny C. Price , A. T. Deller , K. Gourdji

We show that dispersive shock waves resulting from the nonlinearity overbalancing a weak leading-order dispersion can emit resonant radiation owing to higher-order dispersive contributions. We analyze such phenomenon for the defocusing…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-06-17 Matteo Conforti , Fabio Baronio , Stefano Trillo

Diagnostics of polarized emission provide us with valuable information on the Galactic magnetic field and the state of turbulence in the interstellar medium, which cannot be obtained from synchrotron intensity alone. In Paper I (Herron et…

From an on-going survey of the Galactic bulge, we have discovered a number of compact, steep spectrum radio sources. In this present study we have carried out more detailed observations for two of these sources, located 43 arcmin and 12.7…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-21 S. D. Hyman , D. A. Frail , J. S. Deneva , N. E. Kassim , S. Giacintucci , J. E. Kooi , T. J. W. Lazio , I. Joyner , W. M. Peters , V. Gajjar , A. P. V. Siemion

The dispersion characteristics of an circularly polarized electromagnetic wave of arbitrary amplitude, propagating in a highly (thermally and kinematically) relativistic plasma, are shown to approach those of a linear wave in an…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-07-17 Swadesh Mahajan , Manasvi Lingam