ERC Starting Grant · 2025
Pulsar Mode-changing And Polarization: mapping out a connected picture of neutron star evolution
Why is pulsar radio emission time-variable? How does the pulsar magnetic field evolve over its lifetime? The answers will change the landscape of fundamental physics, advancing our understanding of the universe’s most extreme environments and transforming the search for gravitational waves with pulsar timing arrays. Pulsars are spinning magnetized neutron stars emitting a beam of radio waves, and this radio beam is our direct observational link to an environment with some of the highest densities and gravitational field strengths imaginable. The key to answering those two questions is that they are connected: time-variability originates in the pulsar magnetosphere and is affected by the…
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