AbstractI will give a brief review of the recent development in the emission models of isolated, rapidly rotating neutron stars, focusing on the γ-ray radiation mechanism in their outer magnetospheres. By examining the Poisson equation for the electrostatic potential, I show that an active particle accelerator must extend from the vicinity of the neutron star surface to the vicinity of light cylinder. Furthermore, combining the Poisson equation with the Boltzmann equations for electrons/positrons and γ-rays, and assuming that the gap trans-field thickness is large compared to the longitudinal width, I demonstrate that the energy distribution of ultra-relativistic particles cannot be described by a power-law but by a quasi-monoenergetic distribution at the terminal Lorentz factor. The particles are accelerated in the gap and escape from it with large Lorentz factors. Is is shown that such energetic particles migrating outside of the gap contribute significantly to the γ-ray luminosity and reproduce the observed soft γ-ray spectrum between 100MeV and 3GeV for the Vela pulsar.


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    Titel :

    High energy emission from pulsars: Outer gap scenario


    Beteiligte:

    Erschienen in:

    Advances in Space Research ; 35 , 6 ; 1085-1091


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2005-05-18


    Format / Umfang :

    7 pages




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch




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