General relativistic effects on the pulse profile of fast pulsars

Details General relativistic effects on the pulse profile of fast pulsars General relativistic effects on the pulse profile of fast pulsars

Jun 1985

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1985natur.315..557d&link_type=abstract

Nature (ISSN 0028-0836), vol. 315, June 13, 1985, p. 557-559.

Physics

Plasma Physics

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Pulsars, Relativistic Effects, Schwarzschild Metric, Space-Time Functions, Stellar Structure, Angular Velocity, Liouville Theorem, Photons, Plasma Physics, Red Shift, Stellar Rotation

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The recent discovery of millisecond pulsars has led to several theories about the structure and radiation characteristics of rapidly rotating neutron stars. The rapid rotation rate implies that such pulsars will be compact (implying large space-time curvature) and that surface emission characteristics will differ significantly from the nonrotational (Schwarzchild) case. The implications of large space-time curvature and large rotation (specifically, the dragging of inertial frames introduced by rotation) on the trajectories of photons, and hence, on the pulse profile of fast pulsars are reported. Space-time curvature leads to substantial amounts of divergence in the pulse width and reduction in the pulse intensity, whereas rotation produces a tilt of the pulse cone from its original direction of emission, and deforms the cone, introducing an asymmetry in the (flattened) pulse profile leading to a time delay in the arrival of photons emitted within the pulse cone. It is found that the effect of curvature dominates over that of rotation, suggesting a larger brightness temperature than inferred observationally for all pulsars, whatever the rotation rate (unless the pulsar is of very low mass).

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