Microwave radiation from magnetic stars |
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Authors: | V V Zheleznyakov V Yu Tikhomirov |
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Institution: | (1) Institute of Applied Physics, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Gorky, USSR;(2) Radiophysical Research Institute, Gorky, USSR |
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Abstract: | Cyclotron microwave emission from magnetic stars is considered, assuming that they have coronae with the temperatureT107 K and the emission measureEM1054 cm–3. It has been shown that the cyclotron radiation from a star with a dipole magnetic field has a specific spectrum with a maximum in the frequency rangesv
o/2 >v >sv
o/2 (s being the number of cyclotron harmonic, andv
o the gyrofrequency corresponding to the polar magnetic field) and radiation flux decreasing towards lower frequencies asv
4/3. The frequency of the spectrum maximum depends on the angle between the line-of-sight and the magnetic axis of the star. The observed radiation from a rotating magnetic star can be modulated with a modulation depth of about 0.2 at frequencies near maximum. The radiation is partially circularly-polarized in the sense of an extraordinary mode. The degree of polarization is almost constant at frequenciesv >sv
o/2 and increases with frequency atv >sv
o/2. The estimation of cyclotron radio fluxes of the nearest magnetic stars shows that they are observable in microwaves by means of modern radio astronomy. |
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