High-energy accelerators above pulsar polar caps

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1999-09-29

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9909485v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

2 pages, no figures, LaTeX, Contribution to IAU Colloquium 177: Pulsar Astronomy -- 2000 and Beyond

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Similar to the terrestrial collision accelerators of electron-antielectron, another kind of accelerator is above a positively or negatively charged pulsar polar cap. In the case of pulsars with magnetic axis parallel (anti-parallel) to rotational axis, relativistic antielectron (electron) with Lorentz factor about 10^6 hit the electrons in the polar caps. These scenarios are investigated both for pulsars being bare strange stars and for pulsars being neutron stars. Such a study may be valuable to differentiate neutron stars and bare strange stars observationally.

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