What Causes the Radio Pulses of a Pulsar

question 12

Multiple Choice

What causes the radio pulses of a pulsar?

• A)A black hole near the neutron star absorbs energy and re- emits it as radio waves.
• B)The neutron star undergoes periodic explosions of nuclear fusion that generate radio pulses.
• C)As the neutron star spins, beams of radio radiation sweep through space. If one of the beams crosses the Earth, we observe a pulse.
• D)The neutron star's orbiting companion periodically eclipses the radio waves that the neutron star emits.
• E)The vibration of the neutron star

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