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IN this communication an attempt is made to account for the salient features of the pulsed radio sources first discovered by Hewish et al.1, by means of a model based on a pair of neutron stars forming a binary system. Associated with each star of this system is a plasma which is a directional source of high frequency radio waves. The rotational motion of the stars about their common centre of gravity accounts for the observed constancy of the pulse repetition frequency, while the shape and time variation of the plasmas account for the shape, power spectrum, polarization and variability of the pulses.
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MCILRAITH, A. Model for Pulsed Radio Sources. Nature 220, 461–463 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/220461a0
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