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Abstract:
Living, lazy and luminous pulsars are
magnetic early-type stars that emit periodic radio pulses, just like a
'normal' pulsar; but rotating with a considerably less angular speed
than that for neutron stars. We call such objects as 'Main-sequence
Radio Pulse emitters' (MRPs). The emission mechanism behind, the
electron cyclotron maser emission (ECME), is the same one that also
drives coherent radio emission in planets and dwarf stars. The MRPs
have been assumed to be exotic objects due to their rarity for a long
time (only one such object was discovered between 2000-2015), and why
this is the case has been a mystery. In my talk, I will describe an
ongoing survey conducted with the updated Giant Metrewave Radio
Telescope (uGMRT) in an effort to resolve this issue. I will present
the discoveries made so far, and an unexpected possibility that has
emerged from them.
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