Understanding pulsar magnetospheres with the SKAO
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The SKA telescopes will bring unparalleled sensitivity across a broad radio band, a wide field of view across the Southern sky, and the capacity for sub-arraying, all of which make it the ideal instrument for studying the pulsar magnetosphere. This paper describes the advances that have been made in pulsar magnetosphere physics over the last decade, and details how these have been made possible through the advances of modern radio telescopes, particularly SKA precursors and pathfinders. It explains how the SKA telescopes would transform the field of pulsar magnetosphere physics through a combination of large-scale monitoring surveys and in-depth follow-up observations of unique sources and new discoveries. Finally, it describes how the specific observing opportunities available with the AA* and AA4 configurations will achieve the advances necessary to solve the problem of pulsar radio emission physics in the coming years.
Source: The Open Journal of Astrophysics
DOI: 10.33232/001c.154244
Authors: Lucy S Oswald, Avishek Basu, Manoneeta Chakraborty, Bhal Chandra Joshi, Natalia Lewandowska, Kuo Liu, Marcus Lower, Alexander Phillipov, Xiaoxi Song, Pratik Tarafdar, Joeri van Leeuwen, Anna Watts, Patrick Weltevrede, Geoff Wright, Jan Benacek, Aru Beri, Shunshun Cao, Paolo Esposito, Fabian Jankowski, Jinchen Jiang, Aris Karastergiou, Kejia Lee, Nanda Rea, Dany Vohl, SKA Pulsar Science Working Group
Language: English
Subfield: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
Awards: CORTEX: the Center for Optimal, Real-Time Machine Studies of the Explosive Universe, G2551111031, G381403122, G6088847228, G7426073837, The pulsar population: revealing the extreme physics of neutron stars at the intersection of statistics, citizen science and machine-learning, G8058597089, G8752364287
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