Particle acceleration in accreting magnetospheres

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Mar 1988

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1988apj...326..733k&link_type=abstract

Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 326, March 15, 1988, p. 733-737.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Magnetospheres, Neutron Stars, Particle Acceleration, Stellar Magnetospheres, Stellar Mass Accretion, X Ray Sources, Stellar Atmospheres, Stellar Magnetic Fields, Synchrotron Radiation

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The authors consider the possibility that energetic protons are accelerated within the closed magnetosphere of accreting neutron stars. The accelerating mechanism is suggested to be plasma turbulence excited by the accretion flow. Rough estimates show that this mechanism may be capable of accelerating protons to the energies ≡1016eV required to explain observations of ≡1015eV γ-rays from some thermal X-ray sources. Proton synchrotron radiation may be observable at energies ranging from the infrared to ≡GeV γ-rays.

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