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Title: | Toward an empirical theory of pulsar emission. VI - The geometry of the conal emission region |
Authors: | Rankin, J.M. |
Keywords: | PULSARS, RADIO ASTRONOMY RADIO EMISSION STELLAR MAGNETIC FIELDS STELLAR ROTATION |
Issue Date: | Mar-1993 |
Publisher: | The University of Chicago Press for the American Astronomical Society |
Citation: | Astrophysical Journal, 1993, Vol.405, p285-297 |
Abstract: | An empirical analysis of the geometry of the conal emission region for a total population of some 150 pulsars for which an adequate body of observations now exists is presented. Special attention is given to the five-component (M) class and to those other, entirely conal species which are closely related to it: the conal triple and the conal quadruple. The conal emission geometry of this group of five-component (M) stars is considered. Their two pairs of conal components suggest that both an 'inner' and 'outer' hollow conal beam is emitted. The conal emission radii of the five-component M pulsars exhibit a strikingly orderly behavior. The 'inner' and 'outer' radii have the following dependences at 1 GHz: 4.3 deg P exp -1/2 and 5.8 deg P exp -1/2, respectively, where P is the pulsar period. The other species also exhibit great regularity in their conal emission geometry. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2289/1397 |
ISSN: | 0004-637X 1538-4357 (online) |
Alternative Location: | http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/bib_query?1993ApJ...405..285R |
Copyright: | (1993) by the American Astronomical Society. Scanned images provided by the NASA ADS Data System. |
Appears in Collections: | Research Papers (A&A) |
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