Gamma-ray and X-ray luminosities from spin-powered pulsars in the full polar cap cascade model
Abstract
We modify the conventional curvature radiation (inverse Compton scattering) + synchrotron radiation polar cap cascade model by including the inverse Compton scattering of the higher generation pairs. Within the framework of the space-charge-limited-flow acceleration model with frame-dragging proposed by Harding & Muslimov (1998), such a full polar cap cascade scenario can well reproduce the and the dependences observed from the known spin-powered pulsars. According to this model, the ``pulsed'' soft ROSAT-band X-rays from most of the millisecond pulsars might be of thermal origin, if there are no strong multipole magnetic components near their surfaces.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9911026,
title = {Gamma-ray and X-ray luminosities from spin-powered pulsars in the full polar cap cascade model},
author = {Bing Zhang and Alice K. Harding},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9911026},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
To appear in Proc. 5th Compton Symposium, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, concise version of the ApJ paper