HIGH-ENERGY EMISSION FROM PULSAR MAGNETOSPHERES

DOI10.1142/S0217732306020846zbMATH Open1125.85303arXivastro-ph/0606017OpenAlexW1992555867MaRDI QIDQ5481917FDOQ5481917

Authors: Kouichi Hirotani 

Publication date: 24 August 2006

Published in: Modern Physics Letters A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A synthesis of the present knowledge on gamma-ray emission from the magnetosphere of a rapidly rotating neutron star is presented, focusing on the electrodynamics of particle accelerators. The combined curvature, synchrotron, and inverse-Compton emission from ultra-relativistic positrons and electrons, which are created by two-photon and/or one-photon pair creation processes, or emitted from the neutron-star surface, provide us with essential information on the properties of the accelerator -- electric potential drop along the magnetic field lines. A new accelerator model, which is a mixture of traditional inner-gap and outer gap models, is also proposed, by solving the Poisson equation for the electrostatic potential together with the Boltzmann equations for particles and gamma-rays in the two-dimensional configuration and two-dimensional momentum spaces.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0606017

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zbMATH Keywords

magnetic fieldsneutron starsgamma-rays

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Galactic and stellar dynamics (85A05) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to astronomy and astrophysics (85-02)

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