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The Galactic Electron Distribution from a Pulsar Survey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

A. G. Lyne
A. G. Lyne*
Affiliation:
University of Manchester, Nuffield Radio Astronomy Laboratories, Jodrell Bank, Cheshire, United Kingdom

Abstract

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The recent high-sensitivity pulsar survey at Jodrell Bank has allowed a statistical study of more distant objects. The longitude distribution suggests that many of the pulsars observed have distances greater than 5 kpc, leading to an upper limit of about 0.03 cm-3 for the mean electron density. The electron density averaged over distances of a few hundred parsecs seems to be very constant. The width of the electron distribution in the z-direction appears to be greater than about 600 pc.

Type
Part 1: The Interstellar Medium
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 60: Galactic Radio Astronomy , 1974 , pp. 87 - 95
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1974 

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