Coherent Curvature Radio Emission and Polarization from Pulsars

Abstract

We have developed a collective plasma radio emission model for the radio pulsars based on the implications of the tangent model. The secondary pair (electron–positron) plasma particles get arranged into a phased array like an antenna due to plasma waves and radiate in phase. We have reproduced the polarization profiles by considering different viewing conditions in the pulsars having an oblique dipolar magnetic field. We find that when there is a resonance between the radio and the plasma waves, the flux of emitted radio waves gets enhanced. We numerically estimated the collective radio emission due to relativistic plasma. The model predicts the correlation between the sign reversal circular polarization and the polarization angle swing and the brightness temperature in the range ~1031–1033 K.