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Induced Three-wave Interactions in Eclipsing Pulsars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

Qinghuan Luo  and
D. B. Melrose
Qinghuan Luo
Affiliation:
Research Centre for Theoretical Astrophysics, School of Physics, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia. luo@physics.usyd.edu.au
D. B. Melrose
Affiliation:
Research Centre for Theoretical Astrophysics, School of Physics, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia. luo@physics.usyd.edu.au
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Abstract

Three-wave interactions involving two high-frequency waves (in the same mode) and a low-frequency wave are discussed and applied to pulsar eclipses. When the magnetic field is taken into account, the low-frequency waves can be the ω-mode (the low-frequency branch of the ordinary mode) or the z-mode (the low-frequency branch of the extraordinary mode). It is shown that in the cold plasma approximation, effective growth of the low-frequency waves due to an anisotropic photon beam can occur only for z-mode waves near the resonance frequency. In the application to pulsar eclipses, the cold plasma approximation may not be adequate and we suggest that when thermal effects are included, three-wave interaction involving low-frequency cyclotron waves (e.g. Bernstein modes) is a plausible candidate for pulsar eclipses

Keywords

radio continuumbinarieseclipsing pulsars
Type
Gallactic and Stellar
Information
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , April 1995 , pp. 71 - 75
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1995

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