Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2007-06-11
AIP Conf.Proc.921:49-53,2007
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
5 pages, 2 figures, to appear in Proc. of First GLAST Symposium (Stanford, Feb. 5-8, 2007), eds. S.Ritz, P.F. Michelson, and C
Scientific paper
10.1063/1.2757265
Rotation-powered pulsars are excellent laboratories for study of particle acceleration as well as fundamental physics of strong gravity, strong magnetic fields, high densities and relativity. I will review the outstanding questions in pulsar physics and the prospects for finding answers with GLAST LAT observations. LAT observations should significantly increase the number of detected radio-loud and radio-quiet gamma-ray pulsars, including millisecond pulsars, giving much better statistics for elucidating population characteristics, will measure the high-energy spectrum and the shape of spectral cutoffs and determine pulse profiles for a variety of pulsars of different age. Further, measurement of phase-resolved spectra and energy dependent pulse profiles of the brighter pulsars should allow detailed tests of magnetospheric particle acceleration and radiation mechanisms, by comparing data with theoretical models that have been developed.
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