Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Scientific paper
2011-04-07
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
accept for the publication in RAA, 8 pages, comments are welcome
Scientific paper
Distance measurements of gamma-ray pulsars are challenging questions in present pulsar studies. The Large Area Telescope (LAT) aboard the Fermi gamma-ray observatory discovered more than 70 gamma-ray pulsars including 24 new gamma-selected pulsars which nearly have no distance information. We study the relation between gamma-ray emission efficiency ($\eta=L_\gamma/\dot E$) and pulsar parameters for young radio-selected gamma-ray pulsars with known distance information in the first gamma-ray pulsar catalog reported by Fermi/LAT. We have introduced three generation order parameters to describe gamma-ray emission properties of pulsars, and find the strong correlation of $\eta-\zeta_3$ a generation order parameter which reflects $\gamma$-ray photon generations in pair cascade processes induced by magnetic field absorption in pulsar magnetosphere. A good correlation of $\eta-B_{\rm LC}$ the magnetic field at the light cylinder radius is also found. These correlations would be the distance indicators in gamma-ray pulsars to evaluate distances for gamma-selected pulsars. Distances of 25 gamma-selected pulsars are estimated, which could be tested by other distance measurement methods. Physical origin of the correlations may be also interesting for pulsar studies.
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