Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Apr 2002
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002aps..apr2a3011r&link_type=abstract
American Physical Society, April Meeting, Jointly Sponsored with the High Energy Astrophysics Division (HEAD) of the American As
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Scientific paper
There is wide expectation that GLAST will produce fundamental advance in our understanding of physics in the pulsar magnetosphere. The site and dominant radiation mechanism for the Gamma-Ray emission is still controversial -- and I spend a few minutes reviewing the basic GLAST measurements of pulse profile, spectrum and population that should lay these issues to rest -- but the order of magnitude sensitivity increase should also allow a high precision probe of the processes active in the brightest pulsars. Since this is an often neglected aspect I want to emphasize the ways in which GLAST data should allow dramatically improved probes of physical conditions in the magnetosphere. Abetted by lower energy measurements, we should be in a position to map out the pair production and radiation in considerable detail. Finally, modest extrapolation from the present pulsar populations suggests some new types of Gamma-ray emitters will be found. A review of some leading possibilities helps illustrate the power of the GLAST discovery space.
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