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High Energy Radiation from Pulsars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

K.S. Cheng
K.S. Cheng*
Affiliation:
The University of Hong Kong, Pokjulam Road, Hong Kong, China

Abstract

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We propose a three dimensional pulsar magnetosphere model in which the vertical size of the outer gap is first determined by a self-consistent model in which the outer gap is limited by the pair production from collisions of thermal photons produced by polar cap heating of backflow outer gap current and the curvature photons emitted by the gap accelerated charged particles. The transverse size of the outer gap is determined by local pair production condition. In principle, there are two topologically disconnected outer gaps existing in the magnetosphere of a pulsar and both incoming and outgoing particle flows are allowed. And yet double-peak light curves with strong bridges are most common. Using this model and its local properties, we compare the model results with phase-resolved spectra of the Crab pulsar and Geminga.

Type
Part 6. Emission and Plasma Theory
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 177: Pulsar Astronomy - 2000 and Beyond , 2000 , pp. 427 - 432
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2000

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