期刊
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 752, 期 2, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/752/2/155
关键词
magnetic fields; pulsars: general; pulsars: individual (PSR B0826-34); stars: neutron
资金
- European Commission [FP7-PEOPLE-2007-4-3-IRG 224838]
- NSF grant [AST-0507813]
- NASA [NNG06GJI08G, NNX09AU05G]
- DOE [DE-FC02-06ER41453]
- NASA [NNX09AU05G, 107621] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
We derive the exact drift velocity of plasma in the pulsar polar cap, in contrast to the order-of-magnitude expressions presented by Ruderman & Sutherland and generally used throughout the literature. We emphasize that the drift velocity depends not on the absolute value, as is generally used, but on the variation of the accelerating potential across the polar cap. If we assume that drifting subpulses in pulsars are indeed due to this plasma drift, several observed subpulse-drift phenomena that are incompatible with the Ruderman & Sutherland family of models can now be explained: we show that variations of drift rate, outright drift reversals, and the connection between drift rates and mode changes have natural explanations within the frame of the standard pulsar model, when derived exactly. We apply this model for drifting subpulses to the case of PSR B0826-34, an aligned pulsar with two separate subpulse-drift regions emitted at two different colatitudes. Careful measurement of the changing and reversing drift rate in each band independently sets limits on the variation of the accelerating potential drop. The derived variation is small, similar to 10(-3) times the vacuum potential drop voltage. We discuss the implications of this result for pulsar modeling.
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