Rapid Rotation of Polarization Orientations in PSR B1919+21's Single Pulses: Implications On Pulsar's Magnetospheric Dynamics
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| author | Cao, Shunshun Jiang, Jinchen Dyks, Jaroslaw Lee, Kejia Lu, Jiguang Oswald, Lucy S. Wang, Weiyang Xu, Renxin |
| author_facet | Cao, Shunshun Jiang, Jinchen Dyks, Jaroslaw Lee, Kejia Lu, Jiguang Oswald, Lucy S. Wang, Weiyang Xu, Renxin |
| contents | 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 polarization position angle (PA) is found to rotate quasi-monotonically with pulse longitude, by over 180 degrees or even 360 degrees. Some single pulse PA even rotates by over 540 degrees. Most of these quasi-monotonic PA curves have negative slopes with respect to pulse longitude. Oscillations of circular polarization fraction accompany these PA rotations. This rapid rotation could be induced by a quick change of phase lag between two normal wave modes within an individual pulse. We propose a phenomenological model to reproduce the observed polarization rotations in single pulses, and calculate phase lags in a dipolar magnetic field of an aligned rotating pulsar, with a dispersion relation of orthogonal wave modes in strongly magnetized electron-positron plasma. According to the dispersion relation, the weak frequency dependence of observed polarization rotation requires small angles between the radio wavevector and local magnetic fields, which requires the radio emission height to be low, on the order of 10 times neutron star radius. |
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| spellingShingle | Rapid Rotation of Polarization Orientations in PSR B1919+21's Single Pulses: Implications On Pulsar's Magnetospheric Dynamics Cao, Shunshun Jiang, Jinchen Dyks, Jaroslaw Lee, Kejia Lu, Jiguang Oswald, Lucy S. Wang, Weiyang Xu, Renxin High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 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 polarization position angle (PA) is found to rotate quasi-monotonically with pulse longitude, by over 180 degrees or even 360 degrees. Some single pulse PA even rotates by over 540 degrees. Most of these quasi-monotonic PA curves have negative slopes with respect to pulse longitude. Oscillations of circular polarization fraction accompany these PA rotations. This rapid rotation could be induced by a quick change of phase lag between two normal wave modes within an individual pulse. We propose a phenomenological model to reproduce the observed polarization rotations in single pulses, and calculate phase lags in a dipolar magnetic field of an aligned rotating pulsar, with a dispersion relation of orthogonal wave modes in strongly magnetized electron-positron plasma. According to the dispersion relation, the weak frequency dependence of observed polarization rotation requires small angles between the radio wavevector and local magnetic fields, which requires the radio emission height to be low, on the order of 10 times neutron star radius. |
| title | Rapid Rotation of Polarization Orientations in PSR B1919+21's Single Pulses: Implications On Pulsar's Magnetospheric Dynamics |
| topic | High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.18999 |