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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 680, Issue 1, Pages 664-670Publisher
UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
DOI: 10.1086/587474
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polarization; pulsars : general; stars : neutron; stars : oscillations
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In an earlier paper we introduced a model for pulsars in which nonradial oscillations of high spherical degree (l) aligned to the magnetic axis of a spinning neutron star were able to reproduce subpulses like those observed in single-pulse measurements of pulsar intensity. The model did not address polarization, which is an integral part of pulsar emission. Observations show that many pulsars emit radio waves that appear to be the superposition of two linearly polarized emission modes with orthogonal polarization angles. In this paper we extend our model to incorporate linear polarization. As before, we propose that pulsational displacements of stellar material modulate the pulsar emission, but now we apply this modulation to a linearly polarized mode of emission, as might be produced by curvature radiation. We further introduce a second polarization mode, orthogonal to the first, that is modulated by pulsational velocities. We combine these modes in superposition to model the observed Stokes parameters in radio pulsars.
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