EMISSION FROM CLOSED AND FILLED MAGNETOSPHERIC SHELLS AND ITS APPLICATION TO THE CRAB PULSAR

An earlier examination by B. Miller and B. J. Eastlund (1996) of coher ent radio emission from particles confined to closed and filled magnet ospheric shells that approach the light cylinder of a pulsar is extend ed to include incoherent emission from energetic charged particles, si milarly con fined. The emitting particles are now also postulated to b e electrostatically mirroring in the pulsar's magnetic field. This mod el generates time-averaged pulse shapes that resemble closely those fr om the Crab pulsar, over 14 orders of magnitude of frequency, and matc hes the observed power spectrum over the same frequency range.