Pulsar Radio Emission Altitude from Curvature Radiation

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2003-12-03

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0312081v2

Astrophys.J. 609 (2004) 335-339

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

14 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for Astrophysical Journal, 2004

Scientific paper

10.1086/420961

We assume that the relativistic sources moving along the dipolar magnetic field lines emit curvature radiation. The beamed emission occurs in the direction of tangents to the field lines, and to receive it, the sight line must align with the tangent within the beaming angle 1/gamma, where gamma is the particle Lorentz factor. By solving the viewing geometry in an inclined and rotating dipole magnetic field, we show that, at any given pulse phase, observer tends to receive radiation only from the specific heights allowed by the geometry. We find outer conal components are emitted at higher altitudes compared to inner components including the core. At any pulse phase, low frequency emission comes from higher altitudes than high frequency emission. We have modeled the emission heights of pulse components of PSR B0329+54, and estimated field line curvature radii and particle Lorentz factors in the emission regions.

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