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Numerical study of the radio microstructure associated with the plasma turbulence emission model

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

James C. Weatherall
James C. Weatherall*
Affiliation:
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology

Abstract

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Recent observational data of short time-scale fluctuations in the radio emission of pulsars offer the opportunity for new tests of proposed emission models. For this purpose, the existing models must be developed to make predictions regarding the temporal characteristics of the emission. A computer solution of the time evolution of plasma wave turbulence details the properties of the nonlinear plasma emission mechanism. As a consequence of ponderomotive nonlinearity in the plasma medium, two-stream growing modes develop modulational instability, leading to the onset of strong, two-dimensional plasma turbulence. The turbulence exhibits explosive spatial collapse of regions of high electric field, and the escape of bursts of radiation.

Type
Part 4 Radio Properties
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 160: Pulsars: Problems and Progress , 1996 , pp. 205 - 208
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1996

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