Pulsar Polar Cap and Slot Gap Models: Confronting Fermi Data

被引：9
作者：
Harding, Alice K. [1 ]
机构：
[1] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Astrophys Sci Div, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
来源：
JOURNAL OF ASTRONOMY AND SPACE SCIENCE | 2013年 / 30卷 / 03期
关键词：
pulsars; gamma-rays;
D O I：
10.5140/JASS.2013.30.3.145
中图分类号：
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号：
0704 ;
摘要：
Rotation-powered pulsars are excellent laboratories for studying particle acceleration as well as fundamental physics of strong gravity, strong magnetic fields and relativity. Particle acceleration and high-energy emission from the polar caps is expected to occur in connection with electron-positron pair cascades. I will review acceleration and gamma-ray emission from the pulsar polar cap and associated slot gap. Predictions of these models can be tested with the data set on pulsars collected by the Large Area Telescope on the Fermi Gamma-Ray Telescope over the last four years, using both detailed light curve fitting, population synthesis and phase-resolved spectroscopy.
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页码：145 / 152
页数：8
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