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On the thermal effects on radio waves propagating in the pulsar magnetosphere

Part of: Focus on Plasma Astrophysics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2021

A. G. Mikhaylenko ,
V. S. Beskin Open the ORCID record for V. S. Beskin [Opens in a new window]  and
Ya. N. Istomin
A. G. Mikhaylenko
Affiliation:
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Institutsky per. 9, Dolgoprudny, 147000, Russia
V. S. Beskin*
Affiliation:
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Institutsky per. 9, Dolgoprudny, 147000, Russia P.N.Lebedev Physical Institute, Leninsky prosp. 53, Moscow, 119991, Russia
Ya. N. Istomin
Affiliation:
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Institutsky per. 9, Dolgoprudny, 147000, Russia P.N.Lebedev Physical Institute, Leninsky prosp. 53, Moscow, 119991, Russia
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†Email address for correspondence: beskin@lpi.ru
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Abstract

Thermal effects on the properties of four electromagnetic waves propagating in the pulsar magnetosphere are analysed. It is shown that thermal effects change only quantitatively the dispersion properties of superluminal ordinary O-mode freely escaping the pulsar magnetosphere; whereas properties of the extraordinary X-mode remain unchanged. The research shows that for two subluminal waves propagating along magnetic field lines thermal effects result in essential absorption. However, this attenuation occurs at considerable distances from the neutron star, and there is no doubt of their existence.

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astrophysical plasmas

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Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 87 , Issue 1 , February 2021 , 905870105
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