About 200 radio pulsars have been observed to exhibit nulling episodes - short and long. We find that the nulling fraction of a pulsar does not have any obvious correlation with any of the intrinsic pulsar parameters. It also appears that the phenomenon of nulling may be preferentially experienced by pulsars with emission coming predominantly from the polar cap region, and also having extremely curved magnetic fields.
@article{arxiv.1908.07681,
title = {Radio Pulsar Sub-Populations (I) : The Curious Case of Nulling Pulsars},
author = {Sushan Konar and Uddeepta Deka},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.07681},
year = {2019}
}
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