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具有模拟gamma-ray脉冲星群光变曲线形状的约束脉冲星间隙模型

Constraining pulsar gap models with light-curve shapes of a simulated gamma-ray pulsar population

Marco Pierbattista, Isabelle Grenier, Alice Harding, Peter Gonthier

摘要:

费米伽马射线太空望远镜已经发现了许多伽马射线天体,既有射电大声的天体,也有射电安静或射电微弱的天体,这些天体是通过盲期搜索确定的。后者可能具有源自磁层高海拔的伽马射线束,导致与无线电波束很少或没有重叠。高能辐射的指数截止也表明伽马射线起源于中海拔或高海拔地区。人口合成提供了手段来研究两个互补方面的伽玛射线脉冲星人口:能量和光变曲线形态。后者(峰多重性、位置、分离、不对称性等)可用于约束射束的几何形状(它们在开放磁层内的起源、辐射区域随脉冲星功率和年龄的演变.)。它也可以用来约束的加速器模型的框架内的脉冲星的准直性和方向。我们提出了新的模拟和光变曲线分析的初步结果表明,费米脉冲星的样本保留了大部分的几何信息的父伽马射线脉冲星人口。

英文摘要:

The Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope has discovered many gamma-ray pulsars, both as radio-loud objects and radio-quiet or radio-weak pulsars that have been identified through blind period searches. The latter presumably have gamma-ray beams originating from high altitudes in the magnetosphere, resulting in little or no overlap with the radio beam. The exponential cut-off of the emission at high energy also points to a medium- or high-altitude origin of the gamma rays. Population synthesis offers means to study two complementary aspects of the gamma-ray pulsar population: energetics and light curve morphology. The latter (peak multiplicity, position, separation, asymmetries, ...) can be used to constrain the beam(s) geometry (their origin within the open magnetosphere, evolution of the radiating region with pulsar power and age, ...). It can also be used to constrain the obliquity and orientation of a pulsar in the framework of a given accelerator model. We present preliminary results from new simulations and light-curve analysis that indicate that the sample of Fermi pulsars retains much of the geometrical information of the parent gamma-ray pulsar population.

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