2010ApJ...716L..85R -
Astrophys. J., 716, L85-L89 (2010/June-2)
Wide radio beams from γ-ray pulsars.
RAVI V., MANCHESTER R.N. and HOBBS G.
Abstract (from CDS):
We investigate the radio and γ-ray beaming properties of normal and millisecond pulsars (MSPs) by selecting two samples from the known populations. The first, Sample G, contains pulsars which are detectable in blind searches of γ-ray data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope. The second, Sample R, contains pulsars detectable in blind radio searches which have spin-down luminosities {dot}E>1034 erg/s. We analyze the fraction of the γ-ray-selected Sample G which have detectable radio pulses and the fraction of the radio-selected Sample R which have detectable γ-ray pulses. Twenty of our 35 Sample G pulsars have already observed radio pulses. This rules out low-altitude polar-cap beaming models if, as is currently believed, γ-ray beams are generated in the outer magnetosphere and are very wide. We further find that, for the highest-{dot}E pulsars, the radio and γ-ray beams have comparable beaming factors, i.e., the beams cover similar regions of the sky as the star rotates. For lower-{dot}E γ-ray emitting pulsars, the radio beams have about half of the γ-ray sky coverage. These results suggest that, for high-{dot}E young and MSPs, the radio emission originates in wide beams from regions high in the pulsar magnetosphere, probably close to the null-charge surface and to the γ-ray emitting regions. Furthermore, it suggests that for these high-{dot}E pulsars, as in the γ-ray case, features in the radio profile represent caustics in the emission beam pattern.
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