Pulsar "Drifting"-Subpulse Polarization: No Evidence for Systematic Polarization-Angle Rotations
Astrophysics
2009-11-07 v1
Abstract
Polarization-angle density displays are given for pulsars B0809+74 and B2303+30, which exhibit no evidence of the systematic polarization-angle rotation within individual subpulses previously reported for these two stars. The ``drifting'' subpulses of both pulsars exhibit strikingly linear and circular polarization which appears to reflect the characteristics of two nearly orthogonally polarized emission ``modes''--along which the severe average-profile depolarization that is characteristic of their admixture at comparable overall intensities.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0111023,
title = {Pulsar "Drifting"-Subpulse Polarization: No Evidence for Systematic Polarization-Angle Rotations},
author = {R. Ramachandran and Joanna M. Rankin and B. W. Stappers and M. L. A. Kouwenhoven and A. G. J. van Leeuwen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0111023},
year = {2009}
}
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Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics