The natural wave modes in a pulsar magnetosphere.
Abstract
The response tensor for a relativistically streaming electron-positron gas is used to evaluate natural wave modes propagated through it, with attention to polarization characteristics of pulsar radio emission. Equations are presented for both linear and nonlinear propagation modes.
- Publication:
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
- Pub Date:
- September 1977
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 1977PASA....3..120M
- Keywords:
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- Polarization Characteristics;
- Propagation Modes;
- Pulsar Magnetospheres;
- Pulsars;
- Radio Emission;
- High Energy Electrons;
- Positrons;
- Relativistic Particles;
- Stellar Atmospheres;
- Astrophysics;
- Magnetospheres:Pulsars