The decay of curvature gamma-ray photons near a neutron star surface

Details The decay of curvature gamma-ray photons near a neutron star surface The decay of curvature gamma-ray photons near a neutron star surface

Aug 1983

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(Pis'ma v Astronomicheskii Zhurnal, vol. 9, July-Aug. 1983, p. 401-404) Soviet Astronomy Letters (ISSN 0360-0327), vol. 9, July-

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Gamma Ray Astronomy, Neutron Stars, Pulsars, Radioactive Decay, Relativistic Particles, Stellar Radiation, Earth Magnetosphere, Linear Polarization, Pair Production, Photons, Stellar Magnetic Fields

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If a pulsar has a surface-magnetic-field strength Bp greater than 0.2 Bcr, then many of its curvature gamma-ray photons whose magnetic vector is parallel to the plane containing the photon-wave vector k and the external-magnetic-field vector B will decay, splitting into two photons before the pair-production threshold is reached. By observing the polarization of the curvature gamma rays of pulsars it may be possible to estimate Bp.

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