GRO: Studies of high energy pulsars with EGRET
Abstract
A reported e(+/-) annihilation line from the Crab pulsar is described on in this annual report, along with a astronomical model that was investigated theoretically and that displays all of the following properties discovered about this line:very strong (approximately 1040e(+/-) annihilations/sec); redshifted (by about 70 KeV relative to mc2 = 511 KeV); and very narrow (width approximately 10 KeV). A draft of the paper based on this research entitled, 'Pair production in the magnetosphere of the Crab pulsar and a pulsed e(+/-) annihilation gamma-ray line' is included.
- Publication:
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Columbia Univ. Annual Report
- Pub Date:
- July 1995
- Bibcode:
- 1995cuny.reptQ....R
- Keywords:
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- Annihilation Reactions;
- Computational Astrophysics;
- Crab Nebula;
- Gamma Ray Observatory;
- Gamma Ray Spectra;
- Line Spectra;
- Pulsar Magnetospheres;
- Pulsars;
- Stellar Physics;
- Astronomical Models;
- Gamma Ray Astronomy;
- Gamma Ray Telescopes;
- Heao 2;
- Pair Production;
- Red Shift;
- Spaceborne Astronomy;
- Space Radiation