The Nature of Coherent Radio Emission from Pulsars

Abstract

The pulsar radio emission originates from regions below 10% of the light cylinder radius. This requires a mechanism where coherent emission is excited in relativistic pair plasma with frequency ${\nu }_{cr}$ which is below the plasma frequency ${\nu }_{\circ }$ i.e. ${\nu }_{cr}<{\nu }_{\circ }$. A possible model for the emission mechanism is charged bunches (charged solitons) moving relativistically along the curved open dipolar magnetic field lines capable of exciting coherent curvature radio emission. In this article we review the results from high quality observations in conjunction with theoretical models to unravel the nature of coherent curvature radio emission in pulsars.

15 pages, 6 figures: "Has appeared in Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy special issue on 'Physics of Neutron Stars and Related Objects', celebrating the 75th birth-year of G. Srinivasan."

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