Radio pulsar death lines to SGRs/AXPs and white dwarfs pulsars

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作者
Lobato, Ronaldo V. [1 ]
Coelho, J. G. [2 ]
Malheiro, M. [1 ]
机构
[1] ITA DCTA, Inst Tecnol Aeronaut, Dept Fis, BR-12228900 Sao Jose Dos Campos, SP, Brazil
[2] INPE, Div Astrofis, BR-12227010 Sao Jose Dos Campos, SP, Brazil
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SECOND ICRANET CESAR LATTES MEETING: SUPERNOVAE, NEUTRON STARS AND BLACK HOLES | 2015年 / 1693卷
关键词
Radiation mechanisms: non-thermal; Radio lines: general; pulsars: general; white dwarfs; AE-AQUARII; X-RAY; MAGNETIC-FIELDS; EMISSION; STARS; DISCOVERY; RADIATION; GAPS;
D O I
10.1063/1.4937186
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P1 [天文学];
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0704 ;
摘要
Recently, an alternative model based on white dwarfs pulsars has been proposed to explain a class of pulsars known as Soft Gamma Repeaters (SGR) and Anomalus X-Ray Pulsars (AXP) [1], usually named as magnetars. In this model, the magnetized white dwarfs can have surface magnetic field B similar to 10(7) - 10(10) G and rotate very fast with angular frequencies Omega similar to 1 rad/s, allowing them to produce large electromagnetic (EM) potentials and generate electron-positron pairs. These EM potentials are comparable with the ones of neutron star pulsars with strong magnetic fields and even larger. In this study we consider two possible processes associated with the particle acceleration, both of them are common used to explain radio emission in neutron star pulsars: in the first process the pair production happens near to the star polar caps, i.e. inside of the light cylinder where magnetic field lines are closed; in the second one the creation of pair happens in the outer magnetosphere, i.e. far away of the star surface where magnetic field lines are open [2]. The analysis of the possibility of radio emission were done for 23 SGRs/AXPs of the McGill Online Magnetar Catalog [3] that contains the current information available on these sources. The results of this work show that the model where the particles production occur in the outer magnetosphere emission "o2" is the process compatible with the astronomical observations of absence of radio emission for almost all SGRs/AXPs when these sources are understood as white dwarf pulsars. Our work is a first attempted to find an explanation for the puzzle why for almost all the SGRs/AXPs was expected radio emission, but it was observed in only four of them. These four sources, as it was suggested recently [4], seem to belong to an high magnetic field neutron star pulsar category, different from all the others SGRs/AXPs that our work indicate to belong to a new class of white dwarf pulsars, very fast and magnetized.
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