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Orthogonal mode emission in geometric models of pulsar polarisation

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The varying incidence of orthogonal ‘states’ of linear polarisation across the pulse of PSR 2016+28 is discussed in terms of a model with subpulse beams drifting round the pole of a rotating magnetic dipole.

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  1. Radio Astronomy Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, California, 94720

    D. C. Backer

  2. Astronomy Department, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 14853

    John M. Rankin

  3. Arecibo Observatory, Arecibo, Puerto Rico, 00612

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Backer, D., Rankin, J. & Campbell, D. Orthogonal mode emission in geometric models of pulsar polarisation. Nature 263, 202–207 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1038/263202a0

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