Inner magnetospheric accelerators in high magnetic field pulsars
| dc.creator | Zhang, Bing | |
| dc.creator | Harding, Alice K. | |
| dc.date | 2001-02-06 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T01:57:38Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T01:57:38Z | |
| dc.description | Photon splitting is a QED process that can potentially suppress pair production in the inner magnetosphere of a pulsar with a super-strong magnetic field, and hence, may quench radio emission from these objects. While it is unknown how many splitting modes really operate in super-critical fields, we derive gap parameters of a high magnetic field pulsar for both the vacuum-type gap and the space-charge-limited flow accelerator under the assumption that all three splitting modes permitted by QED operate. The competition between photon splitting and pair production depends on the gap parameters, and the ``photon-splitting-dominant'' line for both cases are derived. We discuss the implications of these results and the possible connection of the high magnetic field pulsars with the anomalous X-ray pulsars and soft gamma-ray repeaters which are conjectured to be magnetars. | |
| dc.description | 6 pages with 1 figure, to appear in the Proceedings of "Soft Gamma Repeaters: The Rome 2000 Mini-Workshop" (eds: M. Feroci and S. Mereghetti), 16 October 2000, Rome - CNR Headquarters, to be published on a special issue of the Mem.S.A.It | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0102097 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0102097 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/2460 | |
| dc.subject | Astrophysics | |
| dc.title | Inner magnetospheric accelerators in high magnetic field pulsars | |
| dc.type | text |