Propagation in a shearing plasma. III - Magnetic field effects and pulsar microstructure periods

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Jan 1981

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Astrophysical Journal, Part 1, vol. 243, Jan. 15, 1981, p. 597-611.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Cosmic Plasma, Magnetic Effects, Plasma-Electromagnetic Interaction, Propagation Modes, Pulsars, Shear Layers, Wave Propagation, Anisotropic Media, Electromagnetic Wave Transmission, Microstructure, Plane Waves, Polarization (Waves), Pulsar Magnetospheres, Transmittance

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Effects of a magnetic field on wave and pulse propagation in a shearing plasma are investigated. Equations for the wave fields are derived from Maxwell's equations and the Minkowski relations for an anisotropic medium, when the magnetic field is parallel to the shearing velocity. The independent propagation modes are elliptically polarized in the stationary frame and vary with the velocity of the medium. Numerical calculations are presented which show the propagation of waves and pulses through a plane-parallel shearing plasma in the case of weak and strong fields. It is found that in a weak field, propagation effects are very similar to those previously found in field-free models: the transmitted pulses acquire temporal modulations whose period is frequency dependent. In a strong field, the period of the temporal modulations is independent of frequency. Transmitted pulses can also undergo polarization changes as a result of phase differences between modes. These results are discussed in relation to their significance to propagation in a pulsar magnetosphere and, in particular, to a model for pulse microstructure.

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