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Study on polarization of high-energy photons from the Crab pulsar | | J. Takata
; H. K. Chang
; K. S. Cheng
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9 Jan 2007 | | Abstract: | We investigate polarization of high-energy emissions from the Crab pulsar in the frame work of the outer gap accelerator. The recent version of the outer gap, which extends from inside the null charge surface to the light cylinder, is used for examining the light curve, the spectrum and the polarization characteristics, simultaneously. The polarization position angle curve and the polarization degree are calculated to compare with the Crab optical data. We show that the outer gap model explains the general features of the observed light curve, the spectrum and the polarization by taking into account the emissions from inside of the null charge surface and from tertiary pairs, which were produced by the high-energy photons from the secondary pairs. For the Crab pulsar, the polarization position angle curve indicates that the viewing angle of the observer measured from the rotational axis is greater than 90 degrees. | | Source: | arXiv, astro-ph/0701255 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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