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Single Pulses and the Plasma-physical Processes of Pulsar Radio Emission

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 June 2018

Joanna M. Rankin
Joanna M. Rankin*
Affiliation:
Physics Department, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405USA: [email protected]
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Abstract

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Pulsars were discovered on the basis of their individual pulses, first by Jocelyn Bell and then by many others. This was chart-recorder science as computers were not yet in routine use. Single pulses carry direct information about the emission process as revealed in the detailed properties of their polarization characteristics. Early analyses of single pulses proved so dizzyingly complex that attention shifted to study of average profiles. This is turn led to models of pulsar emission beams—in particular the core/double-cone model—which now provides a foundation for understanding single-pulse sequences. We mention some of the 21stC single-pulse surveys and conclude with a brief discussion of our own recent analyses leading to the identification of the pulsar radio-emission mechanism of both slow and millsecond pulsars.

Keywords

(stars:) pulsars: generalradiation mechanisms: nonthermalpolarization
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 13 , Symposium S337: Pulsar Astrophysics the Next Fifty Years , September 2017 , pp. 73 - 78
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2018 

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