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Signatures of Polar-cap Current Flow in Polarization Angle Sweeps
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2016
Abstract
Upon re-examining the characteristic polarization angle sweep of rotation-powered pulsars, we find that the sweep is perceptibly shifted by aberrational effects and by polar-cap current flow. In addition to the previously known phase shift of the entire sweep by ΔΦ = −4r/RL, aberration shifts the polarization angle itself by ΔΨ = −(10/3)(r/RL) cos α. Similarly, current flow above the polar cap shifts the polarization sweep by ΔΨ = (10/3)(r/RL)(J/JGJ) COS α, potentially providing a method of directly measuring the magnitude of the current. The competition between these two effects produces a potentially observable signature in the polarization angle sweep.
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- Part 3. Studies of Radio Emission
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- International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 177: Pulsar Astronomy - 2000 and Beyond , 2000 , pp. 253 - 256
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- Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2000