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Kouichi Hirotani Shinpei Shibata 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2001,325(3):1228-1240
We investigate a stationary particle acceleration zone in the outer magnetosphere of an obliquely rotating neutron star. The charge depletion as a result of global current causes a large electric field along the magnetic field lines. Migratory electrons and/or positrons are accelerated by this field to radiate curvature gamma-rays, some of which collide with the X-rays to materialize as pairs in the gap. As a result of this pair-production cascade, the replenished charges partially screen the electric field, which is self-consistently solved together with the distribution of particles and gamma-rays. If no current is injected at either of the boundaries of the accelerator, the gap is located around the so-called null surface, where the local Goldreich–Julian charge density vanishes. However, we find that the gap position shifts outwards (or inwards) when particles are injected at the inner (or outer) boundary. We apply the theory to the seven pulsars whose X-ray fields are known from observations. We show that the gap should be located near to or outside of the null surface for the Vela pulsar and PSR B1951+32, so that their expected GeV spectrum may be consistent with observations. We then demonstrate that the intrinsically large TeV flux from the outer gap of PSR B0540–69 is absorbed by the magnetospheric infrared photons, causing it to be undetectable. We also point out that the electrodynamic structure and the resultant GeV emission properties of millisecond pulsars are similar to young pulsars. 相似文献
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It is proposed that radiation belts similar to the ones in the planetary magnetosphere can exist for a pulsar with a relatively long period and a strong magnetic field. In the belts located in the closed field line region near the light cylinder relativistic pairs are trapped and maintained at a density substantially higher than the local Goldreich–Julian corotation density. The trapped plasma can be supplied and replenished by either direct injection of relativistic pairs from acceleration of externally supplied particles in a dormant outer gap or in situ ionization of the accreted neutral material in the trapping region. The radiation belts can be disrupted by waves that are excited in the region as the result of plasma instabilities or emitted from the surface due to starquakes or stellar oscillations. The disruption can cause an intermittent particle precipitation towards the star producing radio bursts. It is suggested that such bursts may be seen as rotating radio transients. 相似文献
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F. C. Michel 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1980,72(1):175-181
We conclude that the magnetospheric structure around an aligned rotating magnetized neutron star, in the case of a completely charge-separated plasma, consists of a dome of charge about the polar caps and an equatorial disk of opposite charge which, together, entirely envelope the surface but do not fill the magnetosphere. Although the aligned rotator is a standard model for analyzing pulsar emission, the magnetosphere we obtain need not emit particles and need not generate a stellar wind, contrary to previous expectations. Pair production only seems to modify the detailed shape of the dome and disk, such modification serving to shut off further pair production. Such a magnetohydrodynamically inactive object may have difficulty simulating pulsar emission.Research support in part by the National Science Foundation under grant AST 77-22675. 相似文献
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Yu. A. Rylov 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1985,117(1):5-34
The self-consistent balanced pulsar magnetosphere of a magnetic neutron star with aligned magnetic and rotational axes is considered. It is shown that the magnetosphere consists of electron polar caps separated by empty space from a positron equatorial belt. The shape of the cold polar caps at a large distance from the star is calculated. It is shown that the cap shape at a large distance is independent of the magnetospheric structure near the neutron star. The shape of the equatorial belt is calculated. It is shown that a part of the equatorial belt rotates differentially, and its angular velocity is larger than that of the star (superrotation). It is shown that under certain conditions the space charge density of the belt can be very large. In principle, the formation of a surface charge placed in vacuum on a magnetic surface is possible. Magnetospheric vibrations are considered. A connection is established between drifting subpulses and the equatorial belt superrotation and also between drifting subpulses and cap vibrations. The characteristic frequency of vibrations and the angular velocity of superrotation are estimated. 相似文献
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利用三维脉冲星磁层模型研究了磁层外隙的几何结构,首先用自治模型确定“外隙”的垂直尺度,在该模型中外隙尺度受回流的外隙流（带有隙加速的带电粒子发射的曲率光子）加热极帽而产生的热光子的碰撞而成对生成所限,外隙的横向尺度也受本地对生成所限,在脉冲星的磁层中,原则上有两个拓扑分离的外隙,允许同时进入和流出粒子,不过,流入粒子流产生的辐射形态受隙了本地对生成和恒星附近的磁对生成的严格制约,根据外隙及其本地结构的三维模型计算了类Crab脉冲星的辐射和相位分解谱。 相似文献
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Pulsars are presently believed to be rotating neutron stars with large frozen-in magnetic fields normally assumed to be dipole fields. It has been shown that such a star must possess a magnetosphere if it rotates sufficiently rapidly. By assuming that the magnetic field is dipolar, and unaffected by the trapped particles in the magnetosphere, and that the field dipole axis is parallel to the rotation axis, Goldreich and Julian determined many of the properties of the magnetosphere. In this paper is given a self-consistent model of the closed field lines of a pulsar magnetosphere. Using this model, it is shown that, close to the star, the above assumptions of Goldreich and Julian are justified. Their results are extended to the oblique rotator as well as to stars with magnetic multipoles of arbitrary order and arbitrary orientation.Supported in part by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission under Grant 2171T. 相似文献
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An analytical model for oscillating pair creation above the pulsar polar cap is presented in which the parallel electric field is treated as a large amplitude, superluminal, electrostatic wave. An exact formalism for such wave is derived in one dimension and applied to both the low-density regime in which the pair plasma density is much lower than the corotating charge density and the high-density regime in which the pair plasma density is much higher than the corotating charge density. In the low-density regime, which is relevant during the phase leading to a pair cascade, a parallel electric field develops resulting in a rapid acceleration of particles. The rapid acceleration leads to bursts of pair production and the system switches to the oscillatory phase, corresponding to the high-density regime, in which pairs oscillate with net drift motion in the direction of wave propagation. Oscillating pairs lead to a current that oscillates with large amplitude about the Goldreich–Julian current. The drift motion can be highly relativistic if the phase speed of large amplitude waves is moderately higher than the speed of light. Thus, the model predicts a relativistic outflow of pairs, a feature that is required for avoiding overheating of the pulsar polar cap and is also needed for the pulsar wind. 相似文献
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Janusz A. Gil David G. Khechinashvili & George I. Melikidze 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》1998,298(4):1207-1211
The famous neutron star Geminga was until quite lately the only pulsar undetected in the radio regime, though observed as a strong pulsating γ- and X-ray source. Three independent groups from the Pushchino Radio Astronomy Observatory (Russia) reported recently the detection of pulsed radio emission from Geminga at 102.5 MHz, i.e., the first detection of the radio pulsar PSR J0633 + 1746 by Kuz'min &38; Losovskii, Malofeev &38; Malov and Shitov &38; Pugachev. This pulsar exhibits the weakest radio luminosity known. Its average pulse profile appears to be very wide, filling an entire 360° pulse window according to Kuz'min &38; Losovskii. We present a model explaining the peculiarities of the Geminga radio pulsar, based on the assumption that it is an almost aligned rotator. The electromagnetic waves generated in the inner magnetosphere reach the region within the light cylinder with a weak magnetic field (at distances of a few light cylinder radii), where they are strongly damped due to the cyclotron resonance with particles of magnetospheric electron–positron plasma. The lowest frequencies that can escape are determined by the value of the magnetic field in the region where the line of sight passes through the light cylinder. The specific viewing geometry of an almost aligned rotator implies that the observer's line of sight probes the emission region near the bundle of the last open field lines. This explains the unusually weak emission from Geminga's low-frequency radio pulsar. 相似文献
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A. V. Gurevich Ya. N. Istomin 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2007,377(4):1663-1667
The analysis of observations of pulsar B1931+24 shows that the mechanism of the spin-down of a rotating magnetized neutron star is due to the plasma generation in its magnetosphere and, consequently, the radio emission generation. The unique observation of the switch on and switch off of this pulsar allows us to distinguish between the energy loss in the absence of radio emission (the magnetodipole radiation) and the current loss due to the rotation energy expenditure to the relativistic plasma generation and acceleration in the pulsar magnetosphere. The inclination angle χ, the angle between the rotation axis and the magnetic dipole axis, can be stationary for this pulsar, χ=χst . From observations and theory it follows that χst = 59° . 相似文献
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Kouichi Hirotani 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2005,297(1-4):81-91
We investigate a stationary pair production cascade in the outer magnetosphere of an isolated, spinning neutron star. The
charge depletion due to global flows of charged particles, causes a large electric field along the magnetic field lines. Migratory
electrons and/or positrons are accelerated by this field to radiate gamma-rays via curvature and inverse-Compton processes.
Some of such gamma-rays collide with the X-rays to materialize as pairs in the gap. The replenished charges partially screen
the electric field, which is self-consistently solved together with the energy distribution of particles and gamma-rays at
each point along the field lines. By solving the set of Maxwell and Boltzmann equations, we demonstrate that an external injection
of charged particles at nearly Goldreich-Julian rate does not quench the gap but shifts its position and that the particle
energy distribution cannot be described by a power-law. The injected particles are accelerated in the gap and escape from
it with large Lorentz factors. We show that such escaping particles migrating outside of the gap contribute significantly
to the gamma-ray luminosity for young pulsars and that the soft gamma-ray spectrum between 100 MeV and 3 GeV observed for
the Vela pulsar can be explained by this component. We also discuss that the luminosity of the gamma-rays emitted by the escaping
particles is naturally proportional to the square root of the spin-down luminosity. 相似文献
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A. N. Timokhin 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2007,308(1-4):345-351
Pulsar “standard model”, that considers a pulsar as a rotating magnetized conducting sphere surrounded by plasma, is generalized
to the case of oscillating star. We developed an algorithm for calculation of the Goldreich-Julian charge density for this
case. We consider distortion of the accelerating zone in the polar cap of pulsar by neutron star oscillations. It is shown
that for oscillation modes with high harmonic numbers (l,m) changes in the Goldreich-Julian charge density caused by pulsations of neutron star could lead to significant altering of
an accelerating electric field in the polar cap of pulsar. In the moderately optimistic scenario, that assumes excitation
of the neutron star oscillations by glitches, it could be possible to detect altering of the pulsar radioemission due to modulation
of the accelerating field.
This work was partially supported by RFBR grant 04-02-16720, and by the grants N.Sh.-5218.2006.2 and RNP-2.1.1.5940. 相似文献
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We present a calculation of a three-dimensional pulsar magnetosphere model to explain high-energy emission from the Geminga pulsar with a thick outer gap. High-energy γ -rays are produced by primary accelerated particles with a power-law energy distribution through curvature radiation inside the outer gap. We also calculate the emission pattern, pulse profile and phase-resolved spectra of high-energy γ -rays of the Geminga pulsar, and find that its pulse profile is consistent with the observed one if the magnetic inclination and viewing angle are ∼50° and ∼86° respectively. We describe the relative phases among soft (thermal) X-rays, hard (non-thermal) X-rays, and γ -rays. Our results indicate that X-ray and γ -ray emission from the Geminga pulsar may be explained by the single thick outer gap model. Finally, we discuss the implications of the radio and optical emission of the Geminga pulsar. 相似文献
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Taner Akgün Bennett Link Ira Wasserman 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2006,365(2):653-672
Stairs, Lyne & Shemar have found that the arrival-time residuals from PSR B1828−11 vary periodically with a period ≈500 d. This behaviour can be accounted for by precession of the radio pulsar, an interpretation that is reinforced by the detection of variations in its pulse profile on the same time-scale. Here, we model the period residuals from PSR B1828−11 in terms of precession of a triaxial rigid body. We include two contributions to the residuals: (i) the geometric effect, which arises because the times at which the pulsar emission beam points towards the observer varies with precession phase; and (ii) the spin-down contribution, which arises from any dependence of the spin-down torque acting on the pulsar on the angle between its spin and magnetic axes. We use the data to probe numerous properties of the pulsar, most notably its shape, and the dependence of its spin-down torque on , for which we assume the sum of a spin-aligned component (with a weight 1 − a ) and a dipolar component perpendicular to the magnetic beam axis (weight a ), rather than the vacuum dipole torque ( a = 1) . We find that a variety of shapes are consistent with the residuals, with a slight statistical preference for a prolate star. Moreover, a range of torque possibilities fit the data equally well, with no strong preference for the vacuum model. In the case of a prolate star, we find evidence for an angle-dependent spin-down torque. Our results show that the combination of geometrical and spin-down effects associated with precession can account for the principal features of the timing behaviour of PSR B1828−11, without fine tuning of the parameters. 相似文献
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Ya. N. Istomin A. P. Smirnov D. A. Pak 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2005,356(3):1149-1154
It is shown that the radius of curvature of magnetic field lines in the polar region of a rotating magnetized neutron star can be significantly less than the usual radius of curvature of the dipole magnetic field. The magnetic field in the polar cap is distorted by toroidal electric currents flowing in the neutron star crust. These currents close up the magnetospheric currents driven by the electron–positron plasma generation process in the pulsar magnetosphere. Owing to the decrease in the radius of curvature, electron–positron plasma generation becomes possible even for slowly rotating neutron stars, with PB −2/3 12 < 10 s , where P is the period of star rotation and B 12 = B /1012 G is the magnitude of the magnetic field on the star surface. 相似文献
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L. Mestel P. Panagi S. Shibata 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》1999,309(2):388-394
The simplest model illustrating the effect of the magnetospheric charge-current field on the structure of a pulsar magnetic field has the region within the light-cylinder filled with the GoldreichJulian charge density which corotates with the neutron star, but has no electric currents along the magnetic field lines. This model has previously been studied for the axisymmetric case, with the rotation and magnetic dipolar axes aligned. The analogous problem is now solved with the two axes mutually perpendicular, so that not only the material current arising from the rotating charges but also the displacement current contributes. Again, the constructed magnetic field B 0 crosses the light-cylinder normally, and there is no energy flux to infinity. However, in a more realistic model there is a flow of current along B 0 , generating a field B 1 which has a non-vanishing toroidal component at the light-cylinder, so yielding a finite integrated Poynting flux. 相似文献
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Yu. A. Rylov 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1981,75(2):423-436
The case of an aligned rotator magnetosphere is considered. Provided the ions ejection from the neutron stellar surface is absent, the pulsar magnetosphere consists of two polar electron caps. The upper parts of the caps are unstable. Electrons precipitate from these parts, fall onto the star and are accelerated to Lorentz-factor 106–107. Electrons radiate -quanta in the direction of the star. These -quanta are converted into electron-positron pairs. The region of size, about 10 stellar radii, around the star appears to be filled with electron-positron plasma. The inflow of electron-positron plasma interacts with the electron gas of the polar cap. For this reason longitudinal plasma vibrations arise, and bunched outflows of electron-positron plasma appear. 相似文献
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Yu. A. Rylov 《Astrophysics and Space Science》1984,107(2):381-401
A self-consistent pulsar magnetospheric model with electron-positron pair production is considered. Unlike conventional models, the primary particles (electrons) are accelerated towards the neutron star and their curvature radiation towards a star generates electron-positron plasma near the neutron star. Inside an outflow channel, the generated plasma flows away from the pulsar magnetosphere. A part of the plasma electrons returns and, being accelerated towards the star, regenerate the plasma by their curvature radiation. It is shown that plasma production near the star causes an appearance of positron and electron equatorial belts. The plasma concentration and the flux of the returning electrons are estimated. The portion of the energy entering into the pulsar magnetosphere and its dependence on pulsar parameters are estimated. 相似文献
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I.H. Stairs R.N. Manchester A.G. Lyne V.M. Kaspi † F. Camilo J.F. Bell N. D'Amico M. Kramer F. Crawford ‡ D.J. Morris A. Possenti N.P.F. McKay S.L. Lumsden L.E. Tacconi-Garman R.D. Cannon N.C. Hambly P.R. Wood 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2001,325(3):979-988
We report on the discovery of a binary pulsar, PSR J1740−3052, during the Parkes multibeam survey. Timing observations of the 570-ms pulsar at Jodrell Bank and Parkes show that it is young, with a characteristic age of 350 kyr, and is in a 231-d, highly eccentric orbit with a companion whose mass exceeds 11 M⊙ . An accurate position for the pulsar was obtained using the Australia Telescope Compact Array. Near-infrared 2.2-μm observations made with the telescopes at the Siding Spring observatory reveal a late-type star coincident with the pulsar position. However, we do not believe that this star is the companion of the pulsar, because a typical star of this spectral type and required mass would extend beyond the orbit of the pulsar. Furthermore, the measured advance of periastron of the pulsar suggests a more compact companion, for example, a main-sequence star with radius only a few times that of the Sun. Such a companion is also more consistent with the small dispersion measure variations seen near periastron. Although we cannot conclusively rule out a black hole companion, we believe that the companion is probably an early B star, making the system similar to the binary PSR J0045−7319. 相似文献
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The stationary axisymmetric force-free magnetosphere of a pulsar is considered. We present an exact dipolar solution of the pulsar equation, construct the magnetospheric model on its basis and examine its observational support. The new model has toroidal rather than common cylindrical geometry, in line with that of the plasma outflow observed directly as the pulsar wind nebula at much larger spatial scale. In its new configuration, the axisymmetric magnetosphere consumes the neutron star rotational energy much more efficiently, implying re-estimation of the stellar magnetic field, \(B_{\mathrm{new}}^{0}=3.3\times10^{-4}B/P\), where \(P\) is the pulsar period. Then the 7-order scatter of the magnetic field derived from the rotational characteristics of the pulsars observed appears consistent with the \(\cot\chi\)-law, where \(\chi\) is a random quantity uniformly distributed in the interval \([0,\pi/2]\). Our result is suggestive of a unique actual magnetic field strength of the neutron stars along with a random angle between the magnetic and rotational axes and gives insight into the neutron star unification on the geometrical basis. 相似文献