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Understanding a pulsar's period based on optical data
The plots you show are "folded" light curves: they assume a period (measured some other way). They represent an average of many cycles of the periodic signal. They follow the convention of ...
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Understanding a pulsar's period based on optical data
Pulsars and their magnetospheres are complex. At a most basic level, the usual "lighthouse" model might yield two pulses per period if the line of sight from Earth to the pulsar intercepts ...
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