Observations and simulations of the Vela pulsar. Left: shaded regions indicate the values obtained by the 70% closer to the median of all realizations. The observations are overlaid using dashed lines. Middle: comparison of observations (dashed) and one particular realization. Right: Δτ_k + 1 vs. Δν_k for the same realization (red triangles) and for the observations (grey dots). Orange represents r_p values and blue represents r_s values in all panels. The simulations were performed using and Δν^⋆ = 9.35 μHz.