Very high-energy gamma radiation associated with the unshocked wind of the Crab pulsar
Mar, 200011 pages
Published in:
- Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 313 (2000) 504
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- astro-ph/0003157 [astro-ph]
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Abstract: (arXiv)
We show that the relativistic wind in the Crab pulsar, which is commonly thought to be invisible in the region upstream of the termination shock at R < 0.1 pc, in fact could be directly observed through its inverse Compton gamm-ray emission. The search for such specific component of radiation in the gamma-ray spectrum of the Crab can provide unique information about the unshocked pulsar wind that is not accessible at other wavelengths.Note:
- 11 pages, 11 figures, to appear in one of the April issues of MNRAS
- photon: cosmic radiation
- pulsar
- cosmic radiation: flux
- cosmic radiation: energy spectrum
- photon electron: Compton scattering
- cosmic radiation: particle source
- plasma: acceleration
- numerical calculations
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