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Origin of Giant Radio Pulses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

Ya. N. Istomin*
Affiliation:
P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Leninsky Prospect 53, 119991 Moscow, Russia

Abstract

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A model for the origin of giant radio pulses is suggested. Radio emission is generated by the electric discharge taking place due to the magnetic reconnection of field lines connecting the opposite magnetic poles. The reconnection occurs in the region of the light cylinder near the zero line of the magnetic field. The coherent mechanism of radiation is pure maser amplification of Alfvén waves. The radiated frequencies are found.

Type
Part 8: Pulsar Electrodynamics and Emission Theory
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2004 

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