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Title:
Gamma-ray pulsars: Emission zones and viewing geometries
Authors:
Romani, Roger W.; Yadigaroglu, I.-A.
Affiliation:
AA(Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA, US), AB(Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA, US)
Publication:
Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 438, no. 1, p. 314-321 (ApJ Homepage)
Publication Date:
01/1995
Category:
Astrophysics
Origin:
STI
NASA/STI Keywords:
EMISSION, GAMMA RAYS, GEOMETRY, PULSARS, STELLAR MODELS, GAMMA RAY OBSERVATORY, OPTICAL POLARIZATION, PULSAR MAGNETOSPHERES, PULSE AMPLITUDE
DOI:
10.1086/175076
Bibliographic Code:
1995ApJ...438..314R

Abstract

There are now a half-dozen young pulsars detected in high-energy photons by the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory (CGRO), showing a variety of emission efficiencies and pulse profiles. We present here a calculation of the pattern of high-energy emission on the sky in a model which posits gamma-ray production by charge-depleted gaps in the outer magnetosphere. This model accounts for the radio to gamma-ray pulse offsets of the known pulsars, as well as the shape of the high-energy pulse profiles. We also show that about one-third of emitting young radio pulsars will not be detected due to beaming effects, while approximately 2.5 times the number of radio-selected gamma-ray pulsars will be viewed only high energies. Finally we compute the polarization angle variation and find that the previously misunderstood optical polarization sweep of the Crab pulsar arises naturally in this picture. These results strongly support an outer magnetosphere location for the gamma-ray emission.

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