Radio pulsars: the search for truth

V.S. Beskin^a, b, Ya.N. Istomin^a, b, A.A. Philippov^b, c
^aLebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky prosp. 53, Moscow, 119991, Russian Federation
^bMoscow Institute of Physics and Technology (National Research University), Institutskii per. 9, Dolgoprudny, Moscow Region, 141701, Russian Federation
^cDepartment of Astrophysical Sciences, Prinseton University, Peyton Hall, 4 Ivy Lane, Princeton, New Jersey, 08544, USA

It was as early as the 1980s that A V Gurevich and his group proposed a theory to explain the magnetosphere of radio pulsars and the mechanism by which they produce coherent radio emission. The theory has been sharply criticized and is currently rarely mentioned when discussing the observational properties of radio pulsars, even though all the criticisms were in their time disproved in a most thorough and detailed manner. Recent results show even more conclusively that the theory has no internal inconsistencies. New observational data also demonstrate the validity of the basic conclusions of the theory. Based on the latest results on the effects of wave propagation in the magnetosphere of a neuron star, we show that the developed theory does indeed allow quantitative predictions of the evolution of neutron stars and the properties of the observed radio emission.

PACS: 52.35.−g, 95.30.Gv, 97.60.Gb (all)
DOI: 10.3367/UFNe.0183.201302e.0179
URL: https://ufn.ru/en/articles/2013/2/d/
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Citation: Beskin V S, Istomin Ya N, Philippov A A "Radio pulsars: the search for truth" Phys. Usp. 56 164–179 (2013)

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RT Journal
T1 Radio pulsars: the search for truth
A1 Beskin,V.S.
A1 Istomin,Ya.N.
A1 Philippov,A.A.
PB Physics-Uspekhi
PY 2013
FD 10 Feb, 2013
JF Physics-Uspekhi
JO Phys. Usp.
VO 56
IS 2
SP 164-179
DO 10.3367/UFNe.0183.201302e.0179
LK https://ufn.ru/en/articles/2013/2/d/

Received: 14th, March 2012, revised: 22nd, May 2012, accepted: 30th, May 2012

Оригинал: Бескин В С, Истомин Я Н, Филиппов А А «Радиопульсары — поиски истины» УФН 183 179–194 (2013); DOI: 10.3367/UFNr.0183.201302e.0179