Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Scientific paper
2011-05-20
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
7 pages, 2 figures, 1 table, conference
Scientific paper
The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has recently reported the detection of pulsed gamma-rays from 6 young pulsars (J0631+1036, J0659+1414, J0742-2822, J1420-6048, J1509-5850, and J1718-3825), all exhibiting single-peaked pulse profiles (Weltevrede et al., 2010). High-quality radio polarization data are also available for 5 of these pulsars, allowing derivation of constraints on their viewing geometries. We obtain independent constraints on the viewing geometries of these pulsars by using a geometric pulsar emission code to model the Fermi LAT and radio light curves. We find fits for the magnetic inclination and observer angles alpha and zeta with typical errors of ~ 5deg. Our results are generally consistent with those obtained by Weltevrede et al. (2010), although we do find differences in some cases. Our model may lastly provide a framework to constrain the radio emission altitude.
de Jager Ocker C.
Harding Alice K.
Seyffert A. S.
Venter Christo
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