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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 607, 期 2, 页码 939-948出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1086/383587
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pulsars : general; radiation mechanisms : nonthermal
We present a modification of the relativistic phase shift method for determining the radio emission geometry from pulsar magnetospheres proposed by Gangadhara & Gupta. Our modification provides a method of determining radio emission altitudes that does not depend on the viewing geometry and does not require polarization measurements. We suggest application of the method to the outer edges of averaged radio pulse profiles to identify magnetic field lines associated with the edges of the pulse and, thereby, to test the geometric method based on the measurement of the pulse width at the lowest intensity level. We show that another relativistic method proposed by Blaskiewicz et al. provides upper limits for emission altitudes associated with the outer edges of pulse profiles. A comparison of these limits with the altitudes determined with the geometric method may be used to probe the importance of rotational distortions of the magnetic field and refraction effects in the pulsar magnetosphere. We provide a comprehensive discussion of the assumptions used in the relativistic methods.
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