Radio Polarimetry Results for Young Southern Pulsars

Abstract

We present radio polarimetry results for nine Southern pulsars. Six of the nine are young, with characteristic ages less than 100 kyr and high spin-down luminosities. All six show significant linear polarization, and we confirm a previously noticed trend in which the degree of linear polarization increases with spin-down luminosity. We have used the rotating vector model to fit the observed position angle data for PSR J1513-5908 (B1509-58). We find that a magnetic inclination angle alpha > 60 degrees is excluded at the 3-sigma level in the fit, and that the geometry suggested by the morphology of an apparent bipolar X-ray outflow is marginally inconsistent with a recent model of the pulsar magnetosphere.