Nature 224, 1188 - 1189 (20 December 1969); doi:10.1038/2241188a0

Distribution of Pulsar Duty Cycles

G. R. HENRY & H.-J. PAIK

Institute of Theoretical Physics, Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305.

WE define a pulsar duty cycle, in the usual way, as the ratio of pulse width to the period of repetition of the pulse (Table 1). On the basis of some extremely simple physical assumptions we compute a histogram for distribution of pulsar duty cycles, and the distribution fits the observations reasonably well as shown in Fig. 1.

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