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Luminosity of synchrotron radiation from outer magnetosphere of pulsars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 June 2018

Shota Kisaka
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Mathematics, Aoyama Gakuin University, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, 252-5258, Japan email: kisaka@phys.aoyama.ac.jp
Shuta J. Tanaka
Affiliation:
Department of Physics, Konan University, Kobe, Hyogo, 658-8501, Japan email: sjtanaka@center.konan-u.ac.jp
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Abstract

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We calculate the luminosity of the synchrotron radiation from the vicinity of the light cylinder. We find that even if the thermal emission from the entire surface is included as the seed photon, the γ-ray to X-ray flux ratio for young pulsars is significantly higher than the observations. For these pulsars, most of γ-ray photons may be absorbed in the magnetosphere.

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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2018 

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