Issue |
A&A
Volume 675, July 2023
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Article Number | A87 | |
Number of page(s) | 10 | |
Section | Astrophysical processes | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202243280 | |
Published online | 04 July 2023 |
The discovery of a transitive phenomenon in the radio emission of the mode-switcher PSR B0943+10
1
P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino Radio Astronomy Observatory, Pushchino 142290, Russian Federation
e-mail: hanna.bilous@gmail.com
2
ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, Postbus 2, 7990 AA Dwingeloo, The Netherlands
Received:
7
February
2022
Accepted:
16
October
2022
PSR B0943+10 is known to switch between two distinct, hour-long modes of radio emission, bright (B) and quiet (Q). The switches in both directions have so far been thought to occur instantly (on the scale of the spin period). We have found a transitive process around the Q-to-B-mode switch, which consists of two additional short-lived modes, each with distinct average profiles and subpulse drift rates. Based on observations at low radio frequencies, we examine the properties of these transitive modes and discuss their implications in the framework of the traditional carousel model of drifting subpulses.
Key words: stars: neutron
© The Authors 2023
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