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2021MNRAS.506L..26J - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 506, L26-L28 (2021/September-1)

Pair production in the millisecond pulsar J0030+0451.

JONES P.B.

Abstract (from CDS):

The electric field accelerating electrons in the Timokhin-Arons polar-cap model as applied to millisecond pulsars is so high that the electron Lorentz factors are limited either by radiation reaction or by the Breit-Wheeler process. In the former case, it is possible to obtain an upper limit for curvature-radiation momentum components perpendicular to the local magnetic field that is independent of the flux-line radius of curvature. The threshold value for single-photon conversion to pairs is high but is possibly reached in J0030+0451. However, owing to the high polar-cap temperature reported, direct pair production by the Breit-Wheeler process is probably more important. If the existence of coherent radio emission in millisecond pulsars is assumed to need a high-multiplicity pair plasma, then it follows that the primary electrons also produce gamma-rays in the Fermi-LAT energy band for which the magnetosphere is completely transparent. The absence of these, in phase with the radio emission, would be an immediate indication that ultra-high-energy electrons and an active Timokhin-Arons polar cap are not present in J0030+0451.

Abstract Copyright: © 2021 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society

Journal keyword(s): acceleration of particles - pulsars: general - pulsars: individual: J0030+0451 - magnetic fields

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