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WE define a pulsar duty cycle, in the usual way, as the ratio of pulse width to the period of repetition of the pulse (Table 1). On the basis of some extremely simple physical assumptions we compute a histogram for distribution of pulsar duty cycles, and the distribution fits the observations reasonably well as shown in Fig. 1.
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HENRY, G., PAIK, HJ. Distribution of Pulsar Duty Cycles. Nature 224, 1188–1189 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/2241188a0
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