A Ray-Tracing Model of the Vela Pulsar

Details A Ray-Tracing Model of the Vela Pulsar A Ray-Tracing Model of the Vela Pulsar

2001-01-19

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0101339v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

23 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/320629

In the relativistic plasma surrounding a pulsar, a subluminal ordinary-mode electromagnetic wave will propagate along a magnetic field line. After some distance, it can break free of the field line and escape the magnetosphere to reach an observer. We describe a simple model of pulsar radio emission based on this scenario and find that applying this model to the case of the Vela pulsar reproduces qualitative characteristics of the observed Vela pulse profile.

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