The Deutsch field gamma-ray pulsar - I. The model basics
Abstract
A new model for the high-energy emission from pulsars is developed by considering charged particle motion in the fields of a spinning, highly magnetized and conducting sphere in vacuum. A generally applicable approximation to the particle motion in strong fields is developed and applied to the numerical modelling, and the radiation emitted by curvature emission is summed to generate light curves. The model predicts many of the observed features of pulsar light curves. This paper outlines the basic properties of the model; a subsequent paper will discuss the statistical properties of a population of model pulsars and apply the model to the known gamma-ray pulsars.
- Publication:
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- December 1997
- DOI:
- 10.1093/mnras/292.4.934
- arXiv:
- arXiv:astro-ph/9601157
- Bibcode:
- 1997MNRAS.292..934H
- Keywords:
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- Pulsars;
- Particle Acceleration;
- Compton Effect;
- Photons;
- Synchrotron Radiation;
- Astrophysics;
- ACCELERATION OF PARTICLES;
- PULSARS: GENERAL;
- GAMMA-RAYS: THEORY;
- Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 11 pages LaTex, 10 postscript figures included with psfig. The paper can also be found at ftp://astro.queensu.ca/pub/mark/preprints/paper1.ps.Z as a compressed postscript file. Submitted to MNRAS