Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2000-05-22
Astrophys.J. 549 (2001) 495-508
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Revised to compute absolute TeV spectra (22 pages, 9 figures)
Scientific paper
10.1086/319038
We study the gamma-ray emissions from an outer-magnetospheric potential gap around a rotating neutron star. Migratory electrons and positrons are accelerated by the electric field in the gap to radiate copious gamma-rays via curvature process. Some of these gamma-rays materialize as pairs by colliding with the X-rays in the gap, leading to a pair production cascade. Imposing the closure condition that a single pair produces one pair in the gap on average, we explicitly solve the strength of the acceleration field and demonstrate how the peak energy and the luminosity of the curvature-radiated, GeV photons depend on the strength of the surface blackbody and the power-law emissions. Some predictions on the GeV emission from twelve rotation-powered pulsars are presented. We further demonstrate that the expected pulsed TeV fluxes are consistent with their observational upper limits. An implication of high-energy pulse phase width versus pulsar age, spin, and magnetic moment is discussed.
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