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Giant Pulses — A Brief Review

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

Simon Johnston
Affiliation:
School of Physics, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
Roger W. Romani
Affiliation:
Dept. of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-4060, USA

Abstract

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We briefly review observational manifestations of pulsars with giant pulse emission and consider quasi-giant pulse phenomena in other pulsars. We argue that power-law statistics give the best definition of giant pulses. Finally, we speculate as to the origin of the giant pulses and a possible link with high energy emission.

Type
Part 7: Observations of Pulsed Emission
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2004 

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