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Polarization Angle Swings Rediscussed

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

W. Sieber*
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Auf dem Hügel 69, D-5300 Bonn 1, Federal Republic of Germany

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The polarization angle swing observed in some pulsars, e.g. PSR 0833-45, may be understood as the pattern which results when our line of sight cuts through the magnetic dipole field of a pulsar. In such a geometry the polarization angle χ is a function of μ, the angle between rotation axis and magnetic field axis and Δ, the angle between magnetic field and line of sight to the observer.

Type
I. Rotation-Powered Pulsars
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1987 

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