Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2008-06-03
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
12 pages, 5 figures, accepted by MNRAS after minor changes
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13923.x
Because of the corotation, the polarization angle (PA) curve of a pulsar lags the intensity profile by 4r/Rlc rad in pulse phase. I present a simple and short derivation of this delay-radius relation to show that it is not caused by the aberration (understood as the normal beaming effect) but purely by contribution of corotation to the electron acceleration in the observer's frame. Available altitude-dependent formulae for the PA curve are expressed through observables and emission altitude to make them immediately ready to use in radio data modelling. The analytical approximations for the altitude-dependent PA curve are compared with exact numerical results to show how they perform at large emission altitudes. I also discuss several possible explanations for the opposite-than-normal shift of PA curve, exhibited by the pedestal emission of B1929+10 and B0950+08.
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