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Depolarization of Pulsar Radio Emission

Maxim Lyutikov

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/9908112

Abstract

We show that intensity dependent depolarization of single pulses (e.g., Xiluoris et al. 1994) may be due to the nonlinear decay of the "upper" ordinary mode into an unpolarized extraordinary mode and a backward propagating wave. The decay occurs in the innermost parts of the pulsar magnetosphere for obliquely propagating O waves.

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