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ICS as a Limiting Factor for Electron Energies in Pulsar Magnetospheres

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Rodrigo Supper*
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, Postfach 1603, 85740 Garching, Germany

Abstract

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Based on the polar cap model, we investigated in the energy loss of accelerated electrons in a neutron star magnetosphere by inverse Compton scattering of thermal photospheric radiation. An analytical treatment is presented, which turns out ranges in the magnetic field strength and thermal temperature where ultrarelativistic electrons can not survive.

Type
Part 6. Emission and Plasma Theory
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2000

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