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Emission altitudes in young and old radio pulsars

2001/01/31 by J. Kijak, Jaroslaw Kijak · 16 citations
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy #Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations #Astrophysics #Atmospheric sciences #Physics #Pulsar #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #Radio wave #Superconducting Materials and Applications #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04302.x

published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 323(3), 537-541 (Oxford University Press) · 7 pages, LaTex, 3 PS figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS

arxiv created 2001/02/05 · openalex publication_date 2001/05/21 · arxiv updated 2015/06/24 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

This paper presents a comparison of emission altitudes in very young and very old radio pulsars. The author confirms that the altitudes at which radio emission at a given frequency is generated depend on the pulsar period and age, although the latter dependence is quite weak.

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