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Morphology and characteristics of radio pulsars

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This review describes the observational properties of radio pulsars, fast rotating neutron stars, emitting radio waves. After the introduction we give a list of milestones in pulsar research. The following chapters concentrate on pulsar morphology: the characteristic pulsar parameters such as pulse shape, pulsar spectrum, polarization and time dependence. We give information on the evolution of pulsars with frequency since this has a direct connection with the emission heights, as postulated in the radius to frequency mapping (RFM) concept. We deal successively with the properties of normal (slow) pulsars and of millisecond (fast-recycled) pulsars. The final chapters give the distribution characteristics of the presently catalogued 1300 objects.

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Seiradakis, J.H., Wielebinski, R. Morphology and characteristics of radio pulsars. The Astron. Astrophys. Rev. 12, 239–271 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00159-004-0022-3

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