Full polar cap cascade scenario: $γ$-ray and X-ray luminosities from spin-powered pulsars

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1999-11-03

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9911028v1

Astrophys.J. 532 (2000) 1150-1171

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

23 pages, emulateapj style, final version to appear in the Astrophysical Journal

Scientific paper

10.1086/308598

We modify polar cap cascade picture to include the ICS of the higher generation pairs. In such a ``full-cascade'' scenario, not only the perpendicular portion of the energy of the pairs goes to high energy radiation via SR, but the parallel portion of the energy of the pairs can also contribute to high energy emission via ICS with the soft thermal photons from either the full neutron star surface or the hot polar cap. An important output of such a scenario is that the soft tail of the ICS spectrum can naturally result in a non-thermal X-ray component which can contribute to the luminosities observed by ROSAT and ASCA. Here we present an analytic description of such a full polar cap cascade scenario within the framework of Harding & Muslimov acceleration model. We present the theoretical predictions of the $\gamma$-ray luminosities, the thermal and non-thermal X-ray luminosities for the known spin-powered X-ray pulsars. Our results show that the observed different dependences of the high energy luminosities on the pulsar spin-down luminosities, i.e., $L_\gamma \propto (L_{\rm sd})^{1/2}$ and $L_x \sim 10^{-3} L_{\rm sd}$, are well reproduced. Our model predicts that the {\em pulsed} soft X-rays in the ROSAT band from most of the millisecond pulsars might be of thermal origin if there is no strong multipole field components near the surfaces of these pulsars.

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