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We investigate the electrodynamics of an outer gap in the meridional plane of the aligned-rotator. The charge depletion from the Goldreich-Julian charge density causes a large electric field along the magnetic field line. The electrons or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 J. Takata , S. Shibata , K. Hirotani

We investigate a stationary pair production cascade in the outer magnetosphere of a spinning neutron star. The charge depletion due to a global current, causes a large electric field along the magnetic field lines. Migratory electrons…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kouichi Hirotani , Shinpei Shibata

We consider the voltage structure in the open-field circuit and outer magnetosphere of a magnetar. The standard polar-cap model for radio pulsars is modified significantly when the polar magnetic field exceeds 1.8x10^{14} G. Pairs are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Christopher Thompson

We investigate a stationary pair production cascade in the outer magnetosphere of a spinning neutron star. The charge depletion due to global flows of charged particles, causes a large electric field along the magnetic field lines.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Kouichi Hirotani , Alice K. Harding , Shinpei Shibata

We investigate a stationary pair production cascade in the outer magnetosphere of a spinning neutron star. The charge depletion due to global flows of charged particles, causes a large electric field along the magnetic field lines.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kouichi Hirotani , Shinpei Shibata

A two-dimensional electrodynamical model is used to study particle acceleration in the outer magnetosphere of a pulsar. The charge depletion from the Goldreich-Julian charge density causes a large electric field along the magnetic field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Takata , S. Shibata , K. Hirotani , H. -K. Chang

We investigate a stationary pair production cascade in the outer magnetosphere of a spinning neutron star. The charge depletion due to global flows of charged particles, causes a large electric field along the magnetic field lines.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Kouichi Hirotani , Shinpei Shibata

We investigate a stationary pair production cascade in the outer magnetosphere of an isolated, spinning neutron star. The charge depletion due to global flows of charged particles, causes a large electric field along the magnetic field…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Kouichi Hirotani

We use the outer gap model to explain the spectrum and the energy dependent light curves of the X-ray and soft gamma-ray radiations of the spin-down powered pulsar PSR B1509-58. In the outer gap model, most pairs inside the gap are created…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Y. Wang , J. Takata , K. S. Cheng

We study the gamma-ray emissions from an outer-magnetospheric potential gap around a rotating neutron star. Migratory electrons and positrons are accelerated by the electric field in the gap to radiate copious gamma-rays via curvature…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 K. Hirotani

The outer gap model is used here to explain the spectrum and the energy dependent light curves of the X-ray and soft gamma-ray radiations of the spin-down powered pulsar PSR B1509-58.In the outer gap model, most pairs inside the gap are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-03-05 Y. Wang , J. Takata , K. S. Cheng

We investigate a stationary particle acceleration zone in the outer magnetosphere of a spinning neutron star. The charge depletion due to a global current causes a large electric field along the magnetic field lines. Migratory electrons…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Kouichi Hirotani , Shinpei Shibata

We study the structure of an outer-magnetospheric gap around a rotating neutron star. Migratory electrons and positrons are accelerated by the electric field exerted in the gap and radiate copious gamma-rays via curvature process. Some of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Hirotani

We develop a model for gamma-ray emission from the outer magnetosphere of pulsars (the outer-gap model). The charge depletion causes a large electric field which accelerates electrons and positrons. We solve the electric field with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Junpei Takata , Sinpei Shibata , Kouichi Hirotani

The popular outer gap model of magnetospheric emission from pulsars has been widely applied to explain the properties observed in $\gamma$-rays. However, its quantitative predictions rely on a number of approximations and assumptions that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-12-05 Daniele Viganò , Diego F. Torres , Kouichi Hirotani , Martín E. Pessah

We analytically investigate the condition for a particle accelerator to be active in the outer magnetosphere of a rotation-powered pulsar. Within the accelerator (or the gap), magnetic-field-aligned electric field accelerates electrons and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Ren-Bo Wang , Kouichi Hirotani

{\it Fermi}-LAT has detected pulsed gamma-ray emissions with high confidences from more than 40 millisecond pulsars (MSPs). Here we study the phase-averaged gamma-ray properties of MSPs by using revised version of a self-consistent outer…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-22 Z. J. Jiang , S. B. Chen , X. Li , L. Zhang

The $Fermi$-LAT has revealed that rotation powered millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are a major contributor to the Galactic $\gamma$-ray source population. Such pulsars may also be important in modeling the quiescent state of several low mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 J. Takata , K. S. Cheng , R. E. Taam

A new picture of pulsar high-energy emission is proposed that is different from both the traditional polar cap and outer gap models, but combines elements of each. The slot gap model is based on electron acceleration along the edge of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Alice Harding , Alexander Muslimov

We use a simple two-layer outer gap model, whose accelerator consists of a primary region and a screening region, to discuss $\gamma$-ray spectrum of mature pulsars detected by $Fermi$. By solving the Poisson equation with an assumed simple…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Y. Wang , J. Takata , K. S. Cheng
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