paper

Multi-wavelength emission modelling of PSR~J04374715

arXiv:2603.10536 · doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202558077

Abstract

The diversity of pulsar light-curves and radio polarisation properties originates in the structure of the magnetic field close to the stellar surface. For millisecond pulsars, this complexity is particularly puzzling. Fortunately, some means exist to uncover the magnetic field topology which indeed impacts the emission within the magnetosphere but also on the surface through its hot spot thermal radiation. We aim at deducing a plausible magnetic field geometry for the millisecond pulsar J04374715 by using combined information from the soft X-ray hot spot geometry deduced from NICER observations by pulse profile modelling and from radio and -ray pulse profile fitting. We also check the consistency between the geometry obtained and the radio polarisation data. Our -ray light-curve shapes rely on the striped wind model, whereas the radio polarisation fits rely on the rotating vector model. The magnetosphere structure is obtained from dipolar force-free magnetosphere simulations. We demonstrate that a slightly off-centred dipole augmented by a small scale dipole located on one polar cap explains simultaneously the shape of the hot spot and the radio and -ray data with a magnetic obliquity of $α\approx (42\pm5) \degr$ and a line-of-sight inclination angle of $ζ\approx (136 \pm5) \degr$. Our simple dipole model reproduces all the radio and -ray characteristics of PSR~J04374715, including its radio polarisation data. It shows that the radio emission could be produced in regions where the magnetic field is mainly of dipolar nature.

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