Giant Radio Pulses from the Crab Pulsar
| Autor: | Gottfried Kanbach, Agnieszka Slowikowska, C. H. Jaroschek, Axel Jessner, B. Klein, T. H. Hankins, Harald Lesch |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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Physics
Atmospheric Science Brightness Crab Pulsar Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Astrophysics (astro-ph) Aerospace Engineering Astronomy FOS: Physical sciences Astronomy and Astrophysics Astrophysics Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics Low frequency Spectral line law.invention Telescope Geophysics Pulsar Space and Planetary Science Millisecond pulsar law General Earth and Planetary Sciences Radio frequency Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics |
| DOI: | 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0410003 |
| Popis: | Individual giant radio pulses (GRPs) from the Crab pulsar last only a few microseconds. However, during that time they rank among the brightest objects in the radio sky reaching peak flux densities of up to 1500 Jy even at high radio frequencies. Our observations show that GRPs can be found in all phases of ordinary radio emission including the two high frequency components (HFCs) visible only between 5 and 9 GHz (Moffett & Hankins, 1996). This leads us to believe that there is no difference in the emission mechanism of the main pulse (MP), inter pulse (IP) and HFCs. High resolution dynamic spectra from our recent observations of giant pulses with the Effelsberg telescope at a center frequency of 8.35 GHz show distinct spectral maxima within our observational bandwidth of 500 MHz for individual pulses. Their narrow band components appear to be brighter at higher frequencies (8.6 GHz) than at lower ones (8.1 GHz). Moreover, there is an evidence for spectral evolution within and between those structures. High frequency features occur earlier than low frequency ones. Strong plasma turbulence might be a feasible mechanism for the creation of the high energy densities of ~6.7 x 10^4 erg cm^-3 and brightness temperatures of 10^31 K. accepted by Advances in Space Research, to appear in the 35th COSPAR assembly proceedings |
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