Toward an empirical theory of pulsar emission. III - Mode changing, drifting subpulses, and pulse nulling

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Pulsars, Stellar Radiation, Pulse Modulation, Pulsed Radiation, Stellar Cores

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The implications of mode changing, drifting subpulses, and pulse nulling in pulsar emission for an empirical model previously developed by the author are discussed. Profile mode changing is studied as a reorganization of core and conal emission, and it is shown that modal changes of the average profile prototypically occur in pulsars having triple or multiple profiles. It is demonstrated that drifting subpulses are associated with conal emission, and that stars which prototypically exhibit the drifting subpulse phenomenon all have conal single profiles wherein the sight line traverses the conal emission lobe tangentially. Finally, it is shown that, within a given profile class, stars which null are no older than those which do not, and the null fraction does not seem to increase with age. Pulsars thus do not null simply by virtue of their age.

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