Tuesday, January 1, 2013

1212.6630 (M. Dembska et al.)

Detailed studies of the PSR B1259-63 spectrum evolution and classification of radio pulsar spectra    [PDF]

M. Dembska, J. Kijak, W. Lewandowski
Kijak et al. (2011a) studied the radio spectrum of PSR B1259-63 in an unique binary with Be star LS 2883 and showed that this pulsar undergoes a spectrum evolution due to orbital motion. They proposed a qualitative model which explains this evolution. They considered two mechanisms that might influence the observed radio emission: free-free absorption and cyclotron resonance. Using the same database we constructed spectra for chosen observing days and obtained different types of spectra. Comparing to current classification of pulsar spectra, there occurs a suggestion that the appearance of various spectra shapes, different from a simple power law which is typical for radio pulsars, is possibly caused by environmental conditions around neutron stars. Therefore, the case of B1259-63 can be treated as a key factor to explain not only the GPS phenomenon observed for the solitary pulsars with interesting environments and also another types of spectra (e.g. with break).
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.6630

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