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Probing pulsar winds using inverse Compton scattering

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Lewis Ball
Affiliation:
Research Centre for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Sydney, N.S.W. 2006, Australia
J. G. Kirk
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Postfach 10 39 80, D-69029, Heidelberg, Germany

Abstract

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We investigate the modifications to the calculations of inverse Compton scattering by the wind of pulsar B1259–63 due to the inclusion of a realistic spectrum for the target photons from the pulsar’s Be-star companion.

Type
Part 7. The Surrounding of Pulsars
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2000

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