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Pulsar Sub-pulses and the Emission Process

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This article describes another regular phenomenon in the sub-pulse behaviour of pulsars. The drift speed of successive sub-pulses follows a sawtooth pattern with a linearly increasing drift speed and sudden jumps as the speed drops to repeat the cycle.

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COLE, T. Pulsar Sub-pulses and the Emission Process. Nature 227, 788–791 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/227788a0

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