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Possible Mechanism for the Pulsar Radio Emission

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An attempt to account quantitatively for the pulse width, polarization and spectrum of the pulses.

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KOMESAROFF, M. Possible Mechanism for the Pulsar Radio Emission. Nature 225, 612–614 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/225612a0

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