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Studying Magnetic Fields using Low-frequency Pulsar Observations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 June 2018

C. Sobey  and
LOFAR and MWA collaborations
C. Sobey
Affiliation:
International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research - Curtin University, GPO Box U1987, Perth, WA 6845, Australia CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science, 26 Dick Perry Avenue, Kensington, WA 6151, Australia email: c.sobey@curtin.edu.au
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Abstract

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Low-frequency polarisation observations of pulsars, facilitated by next-generation radio telescopes, provide powerful probes of astrophysical plasmas that span many orders of magnitude in magnetic field strength and scale: from pulsar magnetospheres to intervening magneto-ionic plasmas including the ISM and the ionosphere. Pulsar magnetospheres with teragauss field strengths can be explored through their numerous emission phenomena across multiple frequencies, the mechanism behind which remains elusive. Precise dispersion and Faraday rotation measurements towards a large number of pulsars probe the three-dimensional large-scale (and eventually small-scale) structure of the Galactic magnetic field, which plays a role in many astrophysical processes, but is not yet well understood, especially towards the Galactic halo. We describe some results and ongoing work from the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) and the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) radio telescopes in these areas. These and other pathfinder and precursor telescopes have reinvigorated low-frequency science and build towards the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), which will make significant advancements in studies of astrophysical magnetic fields in the next 50 years.

Keywords

pulsars: generalmagnetic fieldspolarization
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 13 , Symposium S337: Pulsar Astrophysics the Next Fifty Years , September 2017 , pp. 299 - 303
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2018 

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