{"record_type":"pith_number_record","schema_url":"https://pith.science/schemas/pith-number/v1.json","pith_number":"pith:2016:52PZVBV2VZWPEHBFNSDIVHD4U3","short_pith_number":"pith:52PZVBV2","schema_version":"1.0","canonical_sha256":"ee9f9a86baae6cf21c256c868a9c7ca6c5fd8a0e675d55740689c3fe3719143d","source":{"kind":"arxiv","id":"1609.00021","version":2},"attestation_state":"computed","paper":{"title":"Polarized synchrotron emission from the equatorial current sheet in gamma-ray pulsars","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":[],"primary_cat":"astro-ph.HE","authors_text":"Alexander A. Philippov, Beno\\^it Cerutti, J\\'er\\'emy Mortier","submitted_at":"2016-08-31T20:01:46Z","abstract_excerpt":"Polarization is a powerful diagnostic tool to constrain the site of the high-energy pulsed emission and particle acceleration in gamma-ray pulsars. Recent particle-in-cell simulations of pulsar magnetosphere suggest that high-energy emission results from particles accelerated in the equatorial current sheet emitting synchrotron radiation. In this study, we re-examine the simulation data to compute the phase-resolved polarization properties. We find that the emission is mildly polarized and that there is an anticorrelation between the flux and the degree of linear polarization (on-pulse: ~15%, "},"verification_status":{"content_addressed":true,"pith_receipt":true,"author_attested":false,"weak_author_claims":0,"strong_author_claims":0,"externally_anchored":false,"storage_verified":false,"citation_signatures":0,"replication_records":0,"graph_snapshot":true,"references_resolved":false,"formal_links_present":false},"canonical_record":{"source":{"id":"1609.00021","kind":"arxiv","version":2},"metadata":{"license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","primary_cat":"astro-ph.HE","submitted_at":"2016-08-31T20:01:46Z","cross_cats_sorted":[],"title_canon_sha256":"d14355450d05efbecb293156939440ec5bd47d4188100fa279c4084f14c1afef","abstract_canon_sha256":"7ad0788e119a5f1bd5880cfaa278ebfed09861924e7178ceb73e109c0e057e28"},"schema_version":"1.0"},"receipt":{"kind":"pith_receipt","key_id":"pith-v1-2026-05","algorithm":"ed25519","signed_at":"2026-05-18T01:03:48.449493Z","signature_b64":"UiP2KD/UNo9li12c48Oxt3B9pm0re6nNRhRIwG9hgRHC0/6Pcdov/uVaqSwzRcwOCwoRRy9xnoM9cQ8R1s0mBw==","signed_message":"canonical_sha256_bytes","builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1","receipt_version":"0.3","canonical_sha256":"ee9f9a86baae6cf21c256c868a9c7ca6c5fd8a0e675d55740689c3fe3719143d","last_reissued_at":"2026-05-18T01:03:48.448841Z","signature_status":"signed_v1","first_computed_at":"2026-05-18T01:03:48.448841Z","public_key_fingerprint":"8d4b5ee74e4693bcd1df2446408b0d54"},"graph_snapshot":{"paper":{"title":"Polarized synchrotron emission from the equatorial current sheet in gamma-ray pulsars","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":[],"primary_cat":"astro-ph.HE","authors_text":"Alexander A. Philippov, Beno\\^it Cerutti, J\\'er\\'emy Mortier","submitted_at":"2016-08-31T20:01:46Z","abstract_excerpt":"Polarization is a powerful diagnostic tool to constrain the site of the high-energy pulsed emission and particle acceleration in gamma-ray pulsars. Recent particle-in-cell simulations of pulsar magnetosphere suggest that high-energy emission results from particles accelerated in the equatorial current sheet emitting synchrotron radiation. In this study, we re-examine the simulation data to compute the phase-resolved polarization properties. We find that the emission is mildly polarized and that there is an anticorrelation between the flux and the degree of linear polarization (on-pulse: ~15%, "},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1609.00021","kind":"arxiv","version":2},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"},"aliases":[{"alias_kind":"arxiv","alias_value":"1609.00021","created_at":"2026-05-18T01:03:48.448937+00:00"},{"alias_kind":"arxiv_version","alias_value":"1609.00021v2","created_at":"2026-05-18T01:03:48.448937+00:00"},{"alias_kind":"doi","alias_value":"10.48550/arxiv.1609.00021","created_at":"2026-05-18T01:03:48.448937+00:00"},{"alias_kind":"pith_short_12","alias_value":"52PZVBV2VZWP","created_at":"2026-05-18T12:29:58.707656+00:00"},{"alias_kind":"pith_short_16","alias_value":"52PZVBV2VZWPEHBF","created_at":"2026-05-18T12:29:58.707656+00:00"},{"alias_kind":"pith_short_8","alias_value":"52PZVBV2","created_at":"2026-05-18T12:29:58.707656+00:00"}],"events":[],"event_summary":{},"paper_claims":[],"inbound_citations":{"count":0,"internal_anchor_count":0,"sample":[]},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"sample":[],"anchors":[]},"links":{"html":"https://pith.science/pith/52PZVBV2VZWPEHBFNSDIVHD4U3","json":"https://pith.science/pith/52PZVBV2VZWPEHBFNSDIVHD4U3.json","graph_json":"https://pith.science/api/pith-number/52PZVBV2VZWPEHBFNSDIVHD4U3/graph.json","events_json":"https://pith.science/api/pith-number/52PZVBV2VZWPEHBFNSDIVHD4U3/events.json","paper":"https://pith.science/paper/52PZVBV2"},"agent_actions":{"view_html":"https://pith.science/pith/52PZVBV2VZWPEHBFNSDIVHD4U3","download_json":"https://pith.science/pith/52PZVBV2VZWPEHBFNSDIVHD4U3.json","view_paper":"https://pith.science/paper/52PZVBV2","resolve_alias":"https://pith.science/api/pith-number/resolve?arxiv=1609.00021&json=true","fetch_graph":"https://pith.science/api/pith-number/52PZVBV2VZWPEHBFNSDIVHD4U3/graph.json","fetch_events":"https://pith.science/api/pith-number/52PZVBV2VZWPEHBFNSDIVHD4U3/events.json","actions":{"anchor_timestamp":"https://pith.science/pith/52PZVBV2VZWPEHBFNSDIVHD4U3/action/timestamp_anchor","attest_storage":"https://pith.science/pith/52PZVBV2VZWPEHBFNSDIVHD4U3/action/storage_attestation","attest_author":"https://pith.science/pith/52PZVBV2VZWPEHBFNSDIVHD4U3/action/author_attestation","sign_citation":"https://pith.science/pith/52PZVBV2VZWPEHBFNSDIVHD4U3/action/citation_signature","submit_replication":"https://pith.science/pith/52PZVBV2VZWPEHBFNSDIVHD4U3/action/replication_record"}},"created_at":"2026-05-18T01:03:48.448937+00:00","updated_at":"2026-05-18T01:03:48.448937+00:00"}