INDUCED COMPTON-SCATTERING IN PULSAR WINDS

被引：72

作者：

WILSON, DB

REES, MJ

机构：

[1] Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Road, Cambridge,CB3 0HA, United Kingdom

来源：

MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY | 1978年 / 185卷 / 01期

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D O I：

10.1093/mnras/185.2.297

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

The brightness temperature of pulsars is so high that induced scattering by surrounding plasma can be important even when the Thomson optical depth is small. We investigate this effect in the relativistic winds that are believed to flow from pulsars. If the Crab Nebula is powered by a wind of electrons (or positrons) from the pulsar, then the fact that the radio pulses are not suppressed by induced scattering suggests that the wind's Lorentz factor exceeds ~104 © Royal Astronomical Society.

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页码：297 / 304

页数：8