Resolving the Emission Regions of the Crab Pulsar's Giant Pulses II. Evidence for Relativistic Motion

Rebecca Lin, Marten H. van Kerkwijk, Robert Main +3

The Crab Pulsar is the prime example of an emitter of giant pulses. These short, very bright pulses are thought to originate near the light cylinder, at $\sim 1600\mathrm{km}$ from…