Pulsar Radiation Mechanisms

1 August 1970

journal article
Published by Springer Nature in Nature

Vol. 227 (5257) , 465-470
https://doi.org/10.1038/227465a0

Abstract

Gamma rays produced by electrons accelerated in the strong magnetic fields of neutron stars annihilate to electron-positron pairs. This leads to a two-stream situation, which results in bunching and coherent radio emission.

Keywords

RAYS
GAMMA
COHERENT
RADIO
NEUTRON
BUNCHING
ANNIHILATE
STREAM
ACCELERATED
POSITRON

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