Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Dec 2000
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American Astronomical Society, 197th AAS Meeting, #126.07; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 33, p.710
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
We simulate the characteristics of the Galactic population of radio and gamma-ray pulsars using Monte Carlo techniques. At birth, neutron stars are spatially distributed with supernova-kick velocities in the Galactic disk and randomly dispersed in age back to 109 years. They are evolved in the Galactic gravitational potential to the present time. >From a radio luminosity model, the radio flux is filtered through a selected set of radio-survey parameters. Using the features of recent polar cap acceleration models invoking space-charge-limited flow, a pulsar death region further attenuates the population and radio-loud pulsars are assigned gamma-ray luminosities. In this paper, we will discuss detailed comparisons between the characteristics of calculated pulsars and those of observed pulsars. We will present predictions of the number of radio-loud, gamma-ray pulsars observed by EGRET and GLAST. This work was supported in part by the NSF grant no. SAA 9876670, NSF-REU, Research Corporation, and Michigan Space Grant Consortium.
Berrier Joel
Gonthier Peter L.
Harding Alice K.
O'Brien Shawn
Ouellette Stephen M.
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