Constraining pulsar gap models with light-curve shapes of a simulated gamma-ray pulsar population

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2010-02-01

arxiv.org/abs/1002.0324v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

6 pages, 5 figures; contribution to 2009 Fermi symposium, eConf C091122

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The Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope has discovered many gamma-ray pulsars, both as radio-loud objects and radio-quiet or radio-weak pulsars that have been identified through blind period searches. The latter presumably have gamma-ray beams originating from high altitudes in the magnetosphere, resulting in little or no overlap with the radio beam. The exponential cut-off of the emission at high energy also points to a medium- or high-altitude origin of the gamma rays. Population synthesis offers means to study two complementary aspects of the gamma-ray pulsar population: energetics and light curve morphology. The latter (peak multiplicity, position, separation, asymmetries, ...) can be used to constrain the beam(s) geometry (their origin within the open magnetosphere, evolution of the radiating region with pulsar power and age, ...). It can also be used to constrain the obliquity and orientation of a pulsar in the framework of a given accelerator model. We present preliminary results from new simulations and light-curve analysis that indicate that the sample of Fermi pulsars retains much of the geometrical information of the parent gamma-ray pulsar population.

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