The Multiple Outputs of Energetic Pulsars
Abstract
This talk commented on our progress in understanding high Ė pulsar output, with the photon power dominated by GeV radiation and the total power dominated by the e+/-/B wind. We are increasingly appreciating the anisotropy in these outflows, with high energy pulsar beaming probed by the distribution of γ-ray pulse profiles and wind anisotropy mapped by synchrotron images of PWNe. Possible hemispheric asymmetry and the prospects for additional probes of pulsar spindown, particularly from compact binaries in the black widow class, are briefly mentioned.
- Publication:
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Pulsar Astrophysics the Next Fifty Years
- Pub Date:
- August 2018
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 2018IAUS..337..237R
- Keywords:
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- pulsars: general;
- binaries;
- ISM: supernova remnants