Pulsar Efficiency
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
2012-09-25 v1
Abstract
Pulsar efficiency, defined as the ratio of the pulsed bolometric luminosity to the spin-down power, is calculated to be about 15% (averaged over the spin-dipole inclination angle, ranging between about 50% for the aligned and 10% for the orthogonal). We also estimate the characteristic photon energy and argue that our results agree with the Fermi pulsar catalog -- in a sense.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1209.5121,
title = {Pulsar Efficiency},
author = {Andrei Gruzinov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1209.5121},
year = {2012}
}
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2 pages, 1 figure