Determining the rotation direction in pulsars

Interstellar magnetic fields determined from pulsar polarimetry in the GHz-band may be biased by mechanical-optical rotation in pulsars’ magnetospheres. Here the authors show how observations at sub-GHz frequencies can be used to resolve such a bias and determine pulsar rotation directions.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Renaud Gueroult, Yuan Shi, Jean-Marcel Rax, Nathaniel J. Fisch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11243-4