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OUR objective is to propose a mechanism for pulsar radiation which leads to a relationship which seems to be satisfied by the pulsar associated with the Crab Nebula (NP 0532). We have argued in a report presented to the Conference on Pulsars, New York, May 1968, that (1) the pulse repetition represents rotation of (2) a very condensed object (neutron star, for example), and that (3) the radiation is associated with neutral surfaces in the pulsar magnetosphere. Gold1 has independently put forward the first two suggestions2 and we now wish to discuss a possible mechanism and its consequences.
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MICHEL, F., TUCKER, W. Pulsar Emission Mechanism. Nature 223, 277–279 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/223277a0
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