Cyclotron emission and beaming mechanisms in magnetized neutron stars: Her X-1.
Abstract
The recently reported feature at 53 keV in Her X-1, if interpreted as cyclotron emission, imposes restrictions on the possible beaming mechanisms. Pencil-beam schemes seem ruled out, while occultation schemes may work, but only in conjunction with a fan-beam scheme. Pure fan-beam schemes probably offer the most satisfactory and simple mechanism.
- Publication:
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Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Pub Date:
- February 1978
- Bibcode:
- 1978A&A....63L..19M
- Keywords:
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- Beams (Radiation);
- Cyclotron Radiation;
- Neutron Stars;
- Stellar Radiation;
- X Ray Stars;
- Occultation;
- Opacity;
- Pencil Beams;
- Pulsed Radiation;
- Spectral Line Width;
- Astrophysics;
- Neutron Stars:X-Ray Sources