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The Relation Between Radio Luminosity and Magnetic Field in Rotation-Powered Pulsars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

Serge Pineault
Serge Pineault*
Affiliation:
Université Laval, Physics Department, Ste-Foy, Quebec Canada G1K 7P4

Abstract

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The relationship between radio luminosity L and magnetic field B is re-investigated under the assumption that the new spindown mechanism proposed by Huang et al. (1982) becomes dominant at large periods (P ∝ P2). Magnetic dipole braking is still assumed to provide the main torque at short periods (P ∝ P−1). Both spindown torques depend on B2 (assuming proportionality between internal and external fields) so that the resultant magnetic field in this hybrid model is given by (note the difference with the standard expression): A value of 3.6 is used for γ (Pineault 1986). For the radio luminosity we use the values tabulated by Manchester and Taylor (1981).

Type
I. Rotation-Powered Pulsars
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 125: The Origin and Evolution of Neutron Stars , 1987 , pp. 49
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1987 

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