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Old 09-February-2004, 08:25 AM
lpetrich lpetrich is offline
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They emit from their magnetic poles, not their rotational poles, and that emission is in a cone with an interior angle of something like 15-30 degrees (I don't recall any serious estimates; this is a guess from pulsar pulse shapes).
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