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Science 17 May 1968:
Vol. 160. no. 3829, pp. 758 - 760
DOI: 10.1126/science.160.3829.758
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Pulse Structure of Four Pulsars

F. D. Drake 1 and H. D. Craft Jr. 1

1 Arecibo Ionospheric Observatory, Cornell University, Arecibo, Puerto Rico

The pulse structure of the four known pulsars is given. The pulse is about 38 milliseconds for the two pulsars of longest period, and within the pulsewidth three subpulses typically appear. The pulsar of next longest period typically radiates two pulses separated about 23 milliseconds in time. The one short-period pulsar emits single pulses of constant shape. The first subpulses of all pulsars have nearly the same shape. The shape of the first subpulse agrees well with the pulse shape expected from a radio-emitting sphere which is excited by a spherically expanding disturbance, and in which the radio emission, once excited, decays exponentially

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