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Coherent Mechanisms of Pulsar Radio Emission

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Maxim Lyutikov
Affiliation:
CITA 60 St. George street, Toronto, Canada Caltech, Pasadena, California 91125
Roger Blandford
Affiliation:
CITA 60 St. George street, Toronto, Canada
George Machabeli
Affiliation:
Abastumani Astrophysics Observatory, A. Kazbegi Av. 2a, Tbilisi, 380060 Republic of Georgia

Abstract

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Relativistic plasma masers operating on the anomalous cyclotron-Cherenkov resonance ωk||υ|| + ωB/ϒres = 0 and the Cherenkov-drift resonance ωk||υ||kx/ud = 0, are capable of explaining the main observational characteristics of pulsar radio emission. Both electromagnetic instabilities are due to the interaction of the fast particles from the primary beam and from the tail of the secondary pairs distribution with the normal modes of a strongly magnetized one-dimensional electron-positron plasma. In a typical pulsar both resonances occur in the outer parts of magnetosphere at rres ≈ 109cm.

Type
Part 6. Emission and Plasma Theory
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2000

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