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On the Radiation Mechanism of Pulsars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

M. Grewing  and
H. Heintzmann

Abstract

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It is assumed that pulsars are rotating neutron stars surrounded by a strong dipolar magnetic field, the dipole axis being inclined with respect to the rotation axis. It is further assumed that the intense low frequency electromagnetic waves generated under such circumstances can indeed propagate. It can then be shown that charged particles interacting with such outgoing spherical waves are very efficiently accelerated to relativistic energies. During the acceleration which is almost instantaneous the particles emit a short duration pulse which resembles the observed emission characteristics of pulsars.

Type
III. Rapid and Ultrarapid Variables (Including X-Rax Sources)
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 15: New Directions and Frontiers in Variable Stars Research , 1971 , pp. 182 - 184
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1971

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