On the Diversity of Pulsar's Frequency-Dependent Circular Polarization
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| author | Cao, Shunshun Guo, Yanjun Jiang, Jinchen Lee, Kejia Wang, Weiyang Xu, Renxin |
| author_facet | Cao, Shunshun Guo, Yanjun Jiang, Jinchen Lee, Kejia Wang, Weiyang Xu, Renxin |
| contents | 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, especially with the largest single-dish telescope FAST (Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope). This paper aims to explain the observed diversity of single pulse circular polarization, and to constrain the multiplicity and Lorentz factor of pulsar magnetospheric plasma, with the mode coupling model in the limiting polarization region. Assuming that circular polarization comes only from wave mode coupling, we apply a Bayesian analysis to the FAST observed single pulse circular polarization spectra, involving numerical solving of wave mode coupling equations, and analyze the posterior probability distribution functions of the parameters. Although the model fails to quantitatively fit most circular polarization spectra, circular polarization of different frequency evolution is reproduced. For three chosen pulsars, the Bayesian analysis constrains the multiplicity to be approximately $10^{0}\sim10^{2}$, and the Lorentz factor to be approximately $10^{0.5}\sim10^{2}$. Pulsar circular polarization could be induced by wave mode coupling. The plasma flow responsible for coherent radio emission carries only a very small fraction of the pulsar spin-down energy loss. |
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| spellingShingle | On the Diversity of Pulsar's Frequency-Dependent Circular Polarization Cao, Shunshun Guo, Yanjun Jiang, Jinchen Lee, Kejia Wang, Weiyang Xu, Renxin High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 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, especially with the largest single-dish telescope FAST (Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope). This paper aims to explain the observed diversity of single pulse circular polarization, and to constrain the multiplicity and Lorentz factor of pulsar magnetospheric plasma, with the mode coupling model in the limiting polarization region. Assuming that circular polarization comes only from wave mode coupling, we apply a Bayesian analysis to the FAST observed single pulse circular polarization spectra, involving numerical solving of wave mode coupling equations, and analyze the posterior probability distribution functions of the parameters. Although the model fails to quantitatively fit most circular polarization spectra, circular polarization of different frequency evolution is reproduced. For three chosen pulsars, the Bayesian analysis constrains the multiplicity to be approximately $10^{0}\sim10^{2}$, and the Lorentz factor to be approximately $10^{0.5}\sim10^{2}$. Pulsar circular polarization could be induced by wave mode coupling. The plasma flow responsible for coherent radio emission carries only a very small fraction of the pulsar spin-down energy loss. |
| title | On the Diversity of Pulsar's Frequency-Dependent Circular Polarization |
| topic | High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.19056 |