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We study the emission patterns and light curves of gamma-rays in the pulsar magnetosphere with a current-induced magnetic field perturbation. Based on the solution of a static dipole with the magnetic field induced by some currents…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Xiang Li , Li Zhang

Using a simplified model of cascade pair creation over pulsar polar caps presented in two previous papers, we investigate the expected gamma-ray output from pulsars' low altitude particle acceleration and pair creation regions. We divide…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. A. Hibschman

By means of a particle-in-cell (PIC) simulation, we study the interaction between a uniform magnetized ambient electron-proton plasma at rest and an unmagnetized pair plasma, which we inject at one simulation boundary with a mildly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-19 M E Dieckmann , D Folini , R Walder , A Charlet , A Marcowith

Current models of gamma-ray lightcurves in pulsars suffer from large uncertainties on the precise location of particle acceleration and radiation. Here, we present an attempt to alleviate these difficulties by solving for the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-02-17 Benoît Cerutti , Alexander A. Philippov , Anatoly Spitkovsky

The model of pulsar radio emission is discussed in which a coherent radio emis-sion is excited in a vacuum gap above polar cap of neutron star. Pulsar X and gamma radiation are considered as the result of low-frequency radio emission…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 V. M. Kontorovich , A. B. Flanchik

Pulsar electrodynamics is reviewed emphasizing the role of the inductive electric field in an oblique rotator and the incomplete screening of its parallel component by charges, leaving `gaps' with $E_\parallel\ne0$. The response of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-27 D. B. Melrose , R. Yuen

$\gamma$-ray radiation from pulsars is usually thought to be mostly produced by the synchro-curvature losses of accelerated particles. Here we present a systematic study of all currently reported, good-quality Fermi-LAT pulsar spectral…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-07-16 Daniele Viganò , Diego F. Torres , Jonatan Martín

We study the pulsar energy-dependent $\gamma$-ray light curves and spectra from curvature radiation in the dissipative magnetospheres. The dissipative magnetospheres with the combined force-free (FFE) and Aristotelian (AE) are computed by a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-12 Gang Cao , Xiongbang Yang

We study the gamma-ray emission patterns and light curves in dissipative pulsar magnetospheres. We produce the gamma-ray light curves by using the geometric method and the particle trajectory method. For the geometric method, assuming the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-10 Gang Cao , Xiongbang Yang

In the external shock model, gamma-ray burst (GRB) emissions are produced by the energization and deceleration of a thin relativistic blast wave due to its interactions with the circumburst medium (CBM). We study the physical properties of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Charles D. Dermer , Markus Boettcher , J. Chiang

Guillemot et al. recently reported the discovery of $\gamma$-ray pulsations from the 22.7ms pulsar (pulsar A) in the famous double pulsar system J0737-3039A/B. The $\gamma$-ray light curve (LC) of pulsar A has two peaks separated by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-05 A. S. Seyffert , C. Venter , A. K. Harding , T. J. Johnson

We analytically examine the capabilities of rotation-powered pulsars as the sources of gamma-rays and show that their phase-averaged gamma-ray flux is proportional to the product of the spin-down flux and the gap trans-field thickness cubed…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Kouichi Hirotani

The predictive power of the outer gap model of high energy emission from pulsars is used to analyze the Parkes Multibeam pulsar survey. We find that most of the radio pulsars of the Parkes catalog are not $\gamma$-ray emitters according to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Diego F. Torres , Sebastian E. Nuza

The ability of the neutron star surface to supply all or only part of the charges filling the pulsar magnetosphere is crucial for the physics prevailing within it, with direct consequences for the possible formation of pair creation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Jessner , H. Lesch , T. Kunzl

Polarization measurements provide strong constraints on models for emission from rotation-powered pulsars. We present multiwavelength polarization predictions showing that measurements over a range of frequencies can be particularly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-24 Alice K. Harding , Constantinos Kalapotharakos

We have used a Monte Carlo simulation of a Polar Cap (PC) model of gamma-ray pulsars to estimate light curves and phase-resolved spectra for sources whose rotational and magnetic axes are oriented so that only one of the magnetic poles…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Joseph K. Daugherty , Alice K. Harding

We calculate the spectrum of blast wave models of gamma-ray burst sources, for various assumptions about the magnetic field density and the relativistic particle acceleration efficiency. For a range of physically plausible models we find…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-30 P. Meszaros , M. J. Rees , H. Papathanassiou

The mechanism by which gamma-ray pulsars shine might be reproducible in a laboratory. This claim is supported by three observations: (i) properly focusing a few PW optical laser gives an electromagnetic field in the so-called Aristotelian…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-04-18 Andrei Gruzinov

A model is proposed for the observed combination of power-law and thermal emission of keV X-rays from rotationally powered pulsars. For gamma-ray pulsars with accelerators very many stellar radii above the neutron star surface, 100 MeV…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 F. Y. -H. Wang , M. Ruderman , J. P. Halpern , T. Zhu

In the advent of next generation gamma-ray missions, we present general properties of spectral features of high-energy emission above $1\MeV$ expected for a class of millisecond, low magnetic field ($\sim 10^9\G$) pulsars. We extend…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 T. Bulik , B. Rudak , J. Dyks
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