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Burbidge and Strittmatter1 have suggested that a small orbiting companion of a neutron star might trigger pulses of radio emission, in a way analogous to the Io effect in Jupiter. They propose a satellite of mass m < 1027 g, to avoid difficulties with gravitational radiation, orbiting at a distance R = 108 cm to give a period of the order observed in pulsars.
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DOUGLAS-HAMILTON, D. Pulsar Io Effect?. Nature 218, 1035 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/2181035a0
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