脉冲星的星系磁场

脉冲星的偏振信息是理解脉冲星辐射区的重要手段，利用澳大利亚的64m射电望远镜进行大量的脉冲星观测，得到了一批脉冲星的偏振轮廓和偏振参数，编辑了几乎所有发表的脉冲星轮廓资料，系统总结了脉冲星圆偏辐射的规律，为理论上解释脉冲星辐射这一重要难题提供观测依据和物理限制，利用脉冲星作为探针，研究了银河系磁场结构和模型，确定了银河系BS磁场模型，发现了银河系上下反对称的环向磁场，并首次对星系尺度的发电机类型进行判别，证认出A0型发电机运行于银河系，发现了银晕中的垂直磁场和M31及银盘中的非常延展的磁场，探测到NGC2997星系中由内到外的旋涡磁场，并提出可能有两种发电机在这个星系的不同区域运行。

Pulsar Studies and Magnetic Fields in Galaxies

In recent years, I have mainly worked on the two research areas: pulsar polarization and magnetic fields in galaxies. Together with my cooperators, we have observed about 150 pulsars in total and will do another 100 in near future. We did systematical studies on circular polarization of pulsars and obtained several intriguing results. Using pulsars as probes, we detected the magnetic field reversals from spiral arm to arm in our Galaxy. We found that the B-field has a hi-symmetric structure in the disk. We also obtained the unique measurements of the vertical component of the B-field in the solar vicinity. From the anti-symmetric distribution of Galactic rotation measure sky, we identified the B-field structure produced by A0 dynamo in the Galactic halo or thick disk. The magnetic fields in the disk of our Galaxy and M31 were found to be very axtended. The spiral B-field we detected from NGC2997 suggests that there may be two kinds of dynamos operating in one galaxy.