Morphology and characteristics of radio pulsars
Abstract
This review describes the observational properties of radio pulsars, fast rotating neutron stars, emitting radio waves. After the introduction we give a list of milestones in pulsar research. The following chapters concentrate on pulsar morphology: the characteristic pulsar parameters such as pulse shape, pulsar spectrum, polarization and time dependence. We give information on the evolution of pulsars with frequency since this has a direct connection with the emission heights, as postulated in the radius to frequency mapping (RFM) concept. We deal successively with the properties of normal (slow) pulsars and of millisecond (fast-recycled) pulsars. The final chapters give the distribution characteristics of the presently catalogued 1300 objects.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0410022,
title = {Morphology and characteristics of radio pulsars},
author = {John H. Seiradakis and Richard Wielebinski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0410022},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
33 pages, PDF with 30 PostScript figures, see http://springerlink.metapress.com/link.asp?id=d6k3a6wunb138dpl Accepted by Astronomy & Astrophysivs Reviews